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Sourced using AIMedieval and early modern Frau Perchta references; modern Alpine procession traditions · Bavaria, Austria and Alpine regions
Read record →Sourced using AIAugust–September 1914 · East Prussia, Russian Empire and German borderlands
Read record →Sourced using AI2015 · Maseru and Lesotho airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1855 · Devon, especially around the Exe estuary
Read record →Sourced using AI1952 · Buffalo, New York, and Lake Erie region
Read record →Sourced using AI10th century CE · Baghdad, Arabia, East Africa, and Indian Ocean textual geography
Read record →Sourced using AI1960s · Valle de Santiago, Guanajuato
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 · Auckland, New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AIK'iche' narrative preserved in colonial manuscript; precolonial antecedents debated · Maya world, especially Guatemala and southern Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI2000 · Greenland
Read record →Sourced using AI1959 · Makhachkala, Russian SFSR
Read record →Sourced using AIWritten 1598 · Ming China; literary settings include Nan'an and the underworld
Read record →Sourced using AI2013–2020 · Siddharthnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, India
Read record →Sourced using AI2019–2020 · Innsbruck Airport, Tyrol
Read record →Sourced using AI1957 · Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province
Read record →Sourced using AI2017 onward claims; disputed Pleistocene evidence · Nunavik, Quebec, Canada
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 · France
Read record →Sourced using AIOctober 29, 1727 · New England, especially Boston and coastal Massachusetts
Read record →Sourced using AI20th century · Moehau Range, Coromandel Peninsula
Read record →Sourced using AI2022–2023 · Busan coastline
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Bornholm
Read record →Sourced using AI1957–1961 · Lincoln, Nebraska
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century copies, editions and study; colonial texts of earlier origin · Yucatán
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · Between Oahu and the neighbor islands, Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AI1959 · RAF Honiley, Warwickshire, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Hawaii, especially Oahu, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Iceland
Read record →Sourced using AI1967 · Ranchi, Bihar (now Jharkhand)
Read record →Sourced using AI1752–1755 · Norwegian and North Atlantic waters
Read record →Sourced using AIOld Kingdom through New Kingdom, approximately third to second millennium BCE · Egypt, especially tomb and domestic religious contexts
Read record →Sourced using AI1990 · Puerto Montt, Chile
Read record →Sourced using AIEdo period, before 1800 · Japan; regional traditions vary
Read record →Sourced using AI2009 (exact date uncertain) · Arequipa, Arequipa
Read record →Sourced using AI1970 · Schenectady, New York
Read record →Sourced using AI29 November 1925 · Between Charleston and Havana
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly 2019; publicly circulated 2021 · Off Southern California, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI873–874 CE · Repton, Derbyshire, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1970 · Aden and Gulf of Aden airspace
Read record →Sourced using AIKhmer literary tradition attested in early modern manuscripts and later performance · Cambodia; royal, temple, and performance contexts
Read record →Sourced using AI2003, exact date to verify · Budapest
Read record →Sourced using AI2012 · Barrow (now Utqiaġvik), Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1934 · Durham, North Carolina, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1977 · Paya Lebar Airport, Singapore
Read record →Sourced using AI1898 death; 20th-century repatriation controversy · Iringa, Tanzania, and Kalenga
Read record →Sourced using AI2002–2006 · Piriápolis and Punta del Este, Maldonado Department
Read record →Sourced using AI2012–2016, exact date uncertain · Buenos Aires, Argentina
Read record →Sourced using AIEarly 7th century · Visigothic Hispania
Read record →Sourced using AI1981 · Sweden; exact airport or route requires verification
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