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Sourced using AI1997 · Zurich and Zurich Airport area
Read record →Sourced using AIPre-Islamic references and medieval Arabic literature · Deserts, wilderness, roads and abandoned places
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly 14, 1952 · Near Chesapeake Bay, off Virginia and Maryland
Read record →Sourced using AI1951 · Switzerland, locality to be established
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Hilo, Hawaiian Islands
Read record →Sourced using AI1952 · Caracas and nearby airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1952 · Quebec, Canada
Read record →Sourced using AI1989–1990 · Luxembourg City and northern Luxembourg
Read record →Sourced using AI1988–1991 · Raleigh–Durham, North Carolina
Read record →Sourced using AIAcquired in the early nineteenth century; published 1830s · Deir el-Medina provenance; Turin
Read record →Sourced using AI2012 · Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, United States
Read record →Sourced using AIKhmer versions attested from the Angkor period onward; manuscripts and adaptations later · Cambodia; Angkor and later Cambodian court traditions
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward · Tokyo
Read record →Sourced using AI1992–1996 · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina
Read record →Sourced using AI1943–1945 · Air routes between India, Burma, and China
Read record →Sourced using AI1980 · Pocatello, Idaho
Read record →Sourced using AI2003 · Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Japan, multiple locations
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 · Cape Town, Western Cape
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Andes air corridor between Mendoza and Santiago
Read record →Sourced using AIAttested in colonial and later Mexican folklore; modern form developed over centuries · Mexico, with wider Latin American circulation
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s–1960s · Port of Spain and Trinidad
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Tashkent, Russian Turkestan (now Uzbekistan)
Read record →Sourced using AIEarly modern Jewish tradition, especially documented from the sixteenth century onward; origins disputed · Jewish communities of the Ottoman Middle East and broader Jewish world
Read record →Sourced using AI1992–1996 · Nuremberg and Franconian airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AINovember–December 1966 · McClintic Wildlife Station, Mason County, West Virginia
Read record →Sourced using AI2017–2021 · Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Read record →Sourced using AI2013 · Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepéquez
Read record →Sourced using AI1148–1150 CE · Kashmir
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2000s documentation · India, Nepal and other South Asian Hindu and Buddhist communities
Read record →Sourced using AI1700 · Boston and New England
Read record →Sourced using AI1900–1946 · Northwestern Argentina and adjacent Bolivia
Read record →Sourced using AI1958–1960 · Nyasaland, especially rural southern and central districts
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward scholarship and heritage interpretation · Efate, Vanuatu
Read record →Sourced using AI1920s, individual dates to verify · Kansas
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Florence, Tuscany
Read record →Sourced using AI1983–1985 · Maturín, Monagas State
Read record →Sourced using AIJune–December 1947 · Various locations in Belgium
Read record →Sourced using AI1998 · Near Bakersfield, California
Read record →Sourced using AIOctober 2017 · Southern California, especially Los Angeles and San Diego regions
Read record →Sourced using AI1964 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Read record →Sourced using AI1990 · Multiple locations in South Korea
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Sydney, New South Wales
Read record →Sourced using AIBefore 1800; first European observations in 1778 · Kīlauea, Hawai‘i Island
Read record →Sourced using AI1990–1999 · New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AIEarliest written references from the late 14th century; later literary versions · Hamelin, Lower Saxony
Read record →Sourced using AI2004–2006 · Gold Coast, Queensland, and Tweed Heads, New South Wales
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