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Sourced using AIJuly 1952 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Read record →Sourced using AI2014 · Dublin, Ireland
Read record →Sourced using AI1927 · Korea
Read record →Sourced using AI1948 · New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval tradition continued into early modern texts · Ardennes and wider Central European forest regions
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s · Sint-Truiden, Limburg Province
Read record →Sourced using AI1990 · RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s · Taiwan and the Taiwan Strait
Read record →Sourced using AI2019 · Mumbai, Maharashtra
Read record →Sourced using AI1990s–2000s conspiracy literature · Antarctica
Read record →Sourced using AI2022–2024 · Swiss controlled airspace; airport or sector to be established
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1951 reception · London, England
Read record →Sourced using AIAutumn 1954 · Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg
Read record →Sourced using AI1963 · Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Read record →Sourced using AI1973–1981 · Yuzawadai, Akita, Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI1982 · Tallinn and surrounding Baltic airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1952 · San Salvador, El Salvador
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s circulation · Mexico City and central Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1577 · Ottoman Empire, including Istanbul and Aleppo
Read record →Sourced using AIKebra Nagast compiled in Ge'ez, probably 14th century; older biblical and Islamic traditions · Ethiopia and the broader Red Sea region
Read record →Sourced using AI1959 · Reno, Nevada
Read record →Sourced using AI17 July 1950 · Carson Sink, Nevada
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 · Recife airspace, Pernambuco
Read record →Sourced using AI1997–2001 · Yerevan, Armenia
Read record →Sourced using AI2004 · New York State or adjacent airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Mafeking, Cape Colony
Read record →Sourced using AI1956 · Egypt, especially Cairo and the Suez Canal region
Read record →Sourced using AI2012 · Amsterdam Schiphol, Netherlands
Read record →Sourced using AI1911 · New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AIWang Bi commentary, 3rd century CE; continued through early modern period · China and East Asia
Read record →Sourced using AI1999 · Iran, likely Tehran or central Iran
Read record →Sourced using AI1890s · Kraków
Read record →Sourced using AI2019 · Rome Ciampino Airport, Lazio
Read record →Sourced using AI1880s · Belgium and northern France
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · New York City and surrounding airports, New York
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s–1960s · Sri Lanka and South Asian comparative literature
Read record →Sourced using AI2012–2016 · Los Angeles Basin, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · RAF St Mawgan, Cornwall, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1906–1914 · Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and other North American lumber regions
Read record →Sourced using AI1935 · Ngandong, East Java
Read record →Sourced using AI2002 · Milan airspace
Read record →Sourced using AIExcavated 1876 · Mycenae, Argolid
Read record →Sourced using AI1978 (exact date uncertain) · Shiraz, Iran
Read record →Sourced using AI2008, exact date uncertain · Guadalajara International Airport, Jalisco
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward · Multiple locations in Brazil
Read record →Sourced using AI9 February 1913 · Observed across Canada and the North Atlantic region
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