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Sourced using AIDutch compilation published 1668; based partly on earlier reports · Loango coast
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Read record →Sourced using AIAncient text; nineteenth-century African study and display · Ancient Egypt; modern nineteenth-century Egyptological context
Read record →Sourced using AI2020 (exact date to verify) · Cartagena / Rafael Núñez Airport area
Read record →Sourced using AITwentieth-century oral and folkloric report tradition · Andean northwest, especially Argentina and Bolivia
Read record →Sourced using AI2002 · Gulf Coast, Florida and Alabama
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Cape Colony, South Africa
Read record →Sourced using AIEarly modern to modern Atlantic religious traditions · Kongo regions, Central Africa, and African diaspora communities
Read record →Sourced using AI1966 · Iran, location uncertain
Read record →Sourced using AI1967 · Nha Trang, South Vietnam
Read record →Sourced using AI1803–1804 · Hammersmith, London
Read record →Sourced using AI1959 · Tehran
Read record →Sourced using AIColonial and twentieth-century prison history; later memorial traditions · Sơn Tây, Hanoi region
Read record →Sourced using AITraditional Roman annalistic material; surviving text from Augustan period · Roman Italy; exact entry requires identification
Read record →Sourced using AI2008 · Kyiv
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval manuscript transmission of older and local materials · Ethiopian Christian literary culture
Read record →Sourced using AI1993 · Whitehorse, Yukon
Read record →Sourced using AI1884–1885 · Adyar, Madras
Read record →Sourced using AISeventh century BCE · Greek mythic world
Read record →Sourced using AIDecember 9, 1874 · Latin American observing stations, including the southern Pacific and South America
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward · Sarawak, Borneo
Read record →Sourced using AI1963 (exact date to verify) · Munich, Bavaria
Read record →Sourced using AIMarch 1967 · Minot Air Force Base and nearby missile sites, North Dakota, USA
Read record →Sourced using AI2010s–2020s · Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s scholarship · Australia
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 (approximate) · Pasto, Nariño
Read record →Sourced using AI1900–1946 institutional period · Seacliff, Otago
Read record →Sourced using AI1980s · Britain, especially southwest England
Read record →Sourced using AI1992–1996 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Quemoy, Matsu and Taiwan Strait
Read record →Sourced using AI1928 · Arctic Ocean north of Svalbard
Read record →Sourced using AI1948 revised edition · KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Read record →Sourced using AI1956 · Mediterranean Sea
Read record →Sourced using AI1885–1888 · London; discussions of Egypt, Arabia and the wider Islamic world
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · Bakersfield, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s fieldwork and publications · Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory
Read record →Sourced using AI1988 · Portland area, Oregon
Read record →Sourced using AIApril–May 1897 · California
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly 1966 · Earth orbit
Read record →Sourced using AI2007 (exact date requires verification) · Near Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii
Read record →Sourced using AIṚgvedic and later Vedic tradition · South Asian ritual and textual traditions
Read record →Sourced using AI2009 · Canary Islands airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI2002 · San Juan, Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI1 November 1755 · Atlantic world; reports circulated in Boston, Philadelphia, and other colonies
Read record →Sourced using AI1983–1985 · Albany and the upper Hudson Valley, New York
Read record →Sourced using AIUpper Palaeolithic; recognized in the late nineteenth century · Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, Dordogne, France
Read record →Sourced using AI1890s, exact issue to verify · Pietermaritzburg, Natal Colony
Read record →Sourced using AI2014 · Norwegian coast or Norwegian Sea
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