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Sourced using AI16 January 1958 · Near Trindade Island, Espírito Santo coast
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Soviet Union, locations vary
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Wake Island
Read record →Sourced using AI1965–1966 · Des Moines, Iowa
Read record →Sourced using AI2000–2001 · Quintero, Valparaíso Region
Read record →Sourced using AI2008 · Rajshahi, Bangladesh
Read record →Sourced using AIc. 1590 · Philippines and Spanish colonial Manila
Read record →Sourced using AI1995 · Spokane, Washington
Read record →Sourced using AI1968 · Hobart and southern Tasmania
Read record →Sourced using AIModern tourism and local tradition; commonly circulated by late twentieth century, exact dating uncertain · Bhangarh, Rajasthan
Read record →Sourced using AI1962–1966 · Yangon/Rangoon, Burma
Read record →Sourced using AI1994–1996 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, discussing Ruwa, Zimbabwe
Read record →Sourced using AI2012–2016; exact dates require confirmation · Kansas City, Missouri/Kansas
Read record →Sourced using AI1880s–1890s circulation; origin 1825 · Yotsuya, Tokyo, Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI2000 · Astana and Akmola Region
Read record →Sourced using AI2012–2016; exact dates require confirmation · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Read record →Sourced using AI2015 · Great Basin, Nevada and western Utah
Read record →Sourced using AI2009 · Iqaluit, Nunavut
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s–1960s · Wellington region, New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AIOctober–December 1945 · Ashgabat, Turkmen SSR
Read record →Sourced using AINovember 1986 · Anchorage and vicinity, Alaska
Read record →Sourced using AI1892 · Multiple locations in Belgium
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Oakland and San Francisco Bay, California
Read record →Sourced using AI1817 · Tonga
Read record →Sourced using AI1948 · Buenos Aires airport area
Read record →Sourced using AI1923–1924 · Luxor, Egypt
Read record →Sourced using AI2002–2006 · Areguá and Lake Ypacaraí, Central Department
Read record →Sourced using AI1977 · Puerto Rico
Read record →Sourced using AI2022 onward · Innsbruck, Tyrol
Read record →Sourced using AI12th–10th centuries BCE · Ashkelon
Read record →Sourced using AI2002 · Near Grantley Adams International Airport, Barbados
Read record →Sourced using AI1955 · India, location to verify
Read record →Sourced using AI2012–2016 · Koror and Roman Tmetuchl International Airport, Palau
Read record →Sourced using AI1953–1956 · Resolute Bay, Northwest Territories (now Nunavut)
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · Mobile, Alabama
Read record →Sourced using AI1978 · Bridgetown, Barbados
Read record →Sourced using AI1978 · Veracruz, Veracruz
Read record →Sourced using AI1975 · Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Read record →Sourced using AI1962–1969 · Etah district, Uttar Pradesh
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Antwerp–Deurne
Read record →Sourced using AI1900–1946 English and Persian editions · Iran and Persianate literary world
Read record →Sourced using AI1931–1936 · Cashen’s Gap, near Dalby, Isle of Man
Read record →Sourced using AI5th century BCE · Libya, in Herodotus’s description of the African interior
Read record →Sourced using AI1950 · Mexico City, Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI1987 · Rhode Island coastal communities
Read record →Sourced using AI7 August 1566 · Basel
Read record →Sourced using AI2009–2010 (date to verify) · Nice and Côte d’Azur airspace
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s · Hvalfjörður, western Iceland
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