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Sourced using AISanskrit tale cycle attested in medieval recensions, probably before the 11th century CE · North India; Sanskrit literary tradition
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Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram), Kerala
Read record →Sourced using AI1988 · Islamabad and northern Pakistan
Read record →Sourced using AI1908–1912 discovery; exposed as fraud in 1953 · Piltdown, East Sussex, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Canada
Read record →Sourced using AIFrom early Chinese texts through medieval and modern traditions · China, with transmission to Korea and Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI1985 · Barbados
Read record →Sourced using AI1971 · New Orleans, Louisiana
Read record →Sourced using AI1913–1930s · Taxila, Punjab
Read record →Sourced using AI1984 · Hessdalen Valley, Trøndelag
Read record →Sourced using AI2008 · Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century literary and civic consolidation · Warsaw and the Vistula River
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1969 · Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Read record →Sourced using AI1900s–1940s · Nile, Congo and major East African waterways
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Managua, Nicaragua
Read record →Sourced using AICommentary preserved in Pali; commonly associated with the 5th century CE · Sri Lanka and South Asian Buddhist literary tradition
Read record →Sourced using AI1987 · Jilin Province
Read record →Sourced using AI7 January 1948 · Near Godman Field, Fort Knox, Kentucky
Read record →Sourced using AI1971–1972 · Fouke, Arkansas
Read record →Sourced using AI2003–2009 war-zone hotel accounts · Baghdad
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 (exact date to verify) · Montreal, Quebec
Read record →Sourced using AI1926 · New England
Read record →Sourced using AI1882 · Cape Town, Cape Colony
Read record →Sourced using AIApril–May 1945 · Berlin airspace
Read record →Sourced using AIHaitian Vodou tradition; documented in 19th–20th-century ethnography · Haiti and Haitian diaspora communities
Read record →Sourced using AI21 June 1947 · Maury Island, Puget Sound, Washington
Read record →Sourced using AIJuly 1947 · San Diego, California
Read record →Sourced using AI2000 · Moscow and Moscow Oblast
Read record →Sourced using AI1900–1946 · Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Read record →Sourced using AI1942–1945 · Mobile, Alabama
Read record →Sourced using AI1983 · Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Read record →Sourced using AI1942–1945 · Cape Town and nearby coastal airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1257 CE · Lombok, Indonesia
Read record →Sourced using AI2007–2011 · Brazil; controlled airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1871 · Cairo
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 onward · Jeruk Purut Cemetery, South Jakarta, Indonesia
Read record →Sourced using AI2018 · Wilmington, North Carolina
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Nashville, Tennessee
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century Persian Gulf travel and maritime lore · Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf
Read record →Sourced using AI1909 · Cairo / Arabian literary tradition
Read record →Sourced using AI1962 · Argentine Antarctic stations and supply routes
Read record →Sourced using AI1910 · Curitiba, Paraná
Read record →Sourced using AI1974 · Palermo / Punta Raisi
Read record →Sourced using AI2012–2019 · Gulf of Mexico and western Atlantic deep sea
Read record →Sourced using AIPrague legend developed in early modern and modern retellings; Rabbi Loew died 1609 · Prague, especially the Old Town and Old-New Synagogue tradition
Read record →Sourced using AI5 September 1862 · Wolverhampton, England
Read record →Sourced using AIThird century BCE original work, preserved in later Greek and Latin excerpts · Babylonia; associated with Borsippa
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