The strewnfield is about c. 790,000-year-old. It includes most of Southeast Asia (Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Southern China). The material from the impact stretches across the ocean to include the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Java. It also reaches far west out into the Indian Ocean, and south to Australia and Tasmania. Since the 1960s, it has been accepted that the strewn field included Hainan in southern China to Australia or about 10% of the Earth's surface. This was later extended by finds in Africa and Tasmania to 20%. Recent additional finds in northern Tibet and Guangxi increased the strewnfield to about 30% of the Earth's surface, or almost 150 million km, or about the size of the entire world's landmass.
Tektite
Tektites (from Greek , "molten") are gravel-sized bodies of natural glass. They come in green or brown (usually). They are formed from terrestrial debris ejected during meteorite impacts. The term was coined by Austrian geologist Franz Eduard Suess (1867–1941). They generally range in size from millimeters to centimeters. Millimeter-scale tektites are known as microtektites.
Tektites are characterized by:
Neapolitan language
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Boulos Nassif Borkhoche
Boulos Nassif Borkhoche (born Paul Victor Borkhoche, SMSP (7 October 1932 – 4 February 2021) was a Lebanese-born Syrian Melkite Greek Catholic hierarch. He was Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Bosra and Hauran in Syria from 1983 to 2011. He became a priest in 1960.
Borkhoche died on 4 February 2021 at the age of 88.
Hy Cohen
Hyman Cohen (January 29, 1931 – February 4, 2021) was an American baseball pitcher who played one season in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played seven games for the Chicago Cubs in 1955. He batted and threw right-handed and served as a relief pitcher.
Cohen died on February 4, 2021 at a hospital in Rancho Mirage, California from problems caused by COVID-19, aged 90.
Millie Hughes-Fulford
Millie Elizabeth Hughes-Fulford (December 21, 1945 – February 2, 2021) was an American medical investigator, molecular biologist, and NASA payload specialist. She flew aboard the NASA Space Shuttle "Columbia" in 1991. She was the first female payload specialist in space. Hughes-Fulford was born in Mineral Wells, Texas.
Hughes-Fulford died on February 2, 2021 in San Francisco, California from lymphoma at the age of 75.
Franz Josef Kuhnle
Franz Josef Kuhnle (27 April 1926 – 4 February 2021) was a German Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop. He became a priest in 1952. He was titular bishop of "Sorres" and as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany from 1976 to 1990.
Kuhnle died on 4 February 2021, aged 94.
Laiching Jagoi
"Laiching Jagoi" () (literally, ""Dance of summoning the deity"") is a dance form performed by the maibis (priestesses) with the langthrei (a special leaf of Blumea balsamifera) held between their fingers. This sequence involves a variety of expressive movements where the spirit of the deity is invited to enter each maibi's body. It is an invocatory dance where the maibis stand with their hands in a pose symbolizing women's union. In this dance form, the maibis, after invoking the deities from water, perform leitai nongdai jagoi. This dance form is performed in front of the shrine of the deities.
Charles McGee (painter)
Charles McGee (December 15, 1924 – February 4, 2021) was an American artist and educator. He was known for creating paintings, assemblages, and sculptures. His artwork is in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. He also created many public works in the city of Detroit. McGee was born in Clemson, South Carolina.
McGee died on February 4, 2021 in Detroit, Michigan at the age of 96.
Clemson, South Carolina
Clemson () is a city in Pickens and Anderson counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina. Clemson is home to Clemson University. 13,905 people lived here at the 2010 census.
Pierre-Antoine Paulo
Pierre-Antoine Paulo, OMI (23 March 1944 – 4 February 2021) was a Haitian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was Bishop of Port-de-Paix from 2008 to 2020. Paulo was born in Camp-Perrin, Haiti.
Pope Francis accepted his resignation as Bishop of Port-de-Paix on 14 April 2020.
Paulo died on 4 February 2021 in Port-de-Paix, Haiti at the age of 76.
Ri Jae-il
Ri Jae-il (, 1935 – 4 February 2021) was a North Korean politician. He a member of the Propaganda and Agitation Department from 2004 to 2014. He was a member of the Workers' Party of Korea and of the Supreme People's Assembly.
Ri died on 4 February 2021 of lung cancer in Pyongyang, North Korea at the age of 86.
Afonso Fioreze
Afonso Fioreze (1 June 1942 – 6 February 2021) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop. He became a priest in 1970. He was coadjutor bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Luziânia, Brazil in 2003 and 2004 and as bishop of the diocese from 2004 to 2017.
Fioreze died on 6 February 2021, aged 78.
Harry Fielder
Harry Fielder (26 April 1940 – 6 February 2021) was an English actor. He was known for appearing in many television shows from the 1960s to the 1990s. His best known roles were on "Doctor Who", "Blake's 7", "Shoestring", "The Sweeney", "Minder" and "The Professionals".
Fielder died on 6 February 2021 at the age of 80.
Santiago García (Uruguayan footballer)
Santiago Damián García Correa (14 September 1990 – 4 February 2021), nicknamed "Morro", was a Uruguayan professional footballer. He played as a striker.
His last club was Argentine club Godoy Cruz, which tenure is thought to be the most successful of his professional career.
García was a member of the Uruguay under-20 team that participated in the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup, where he played three games and scored one goal.
On 6 February 2021, García was found dead in his apartment in Mendoza, Argentina, with a gunshot wound in the head, aged 30. It was confirmed that the cause of death was suicide by gunshot.
Cobar Shire
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Lilliane Brady was the Mayor of Cobar Shire for almost 23 years, and died in 2021.
Mario Osbén
Mario Ignacio Osbén Méndez (14 July 1950 – 7 February 2021) was a Chilean footballer. He played as a goalkeeper. He played for Ñublense, Club de Deportes Concepción, Unión Española, Colo Colo and Cobreloa during his professional career.
He represented the Chile national team at the 1982 FIFA World Cup. He played for the team from 1979 to 1988.
Osbén died on 7 February 2021 from a heart attack in Concepción, Chile at the age of 70.
Leisem Jagoi
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The sequence of the dance is performed by the Ningol Macha (girls).
The six original forms of the dance are leishem, leitai, nongdai, leipekpa, leihouba and leipiba.
It is one of the early dance forms of Ancient Manipur contributing to the rich Manipur's classical wealth of culture.
Giuseppe Rotunno
Giuseppe Rotunno (19 March 1923 – 7 February 2021) was an Italian cinematographer. He won a BAFTA Award in 1979 for his work in "All That Jazz". Rotunno was born in Rome. His career lasted from 1955 to 1997. Rotunno was the first non-American member admitted to the American Society of Cinematographers in 1966.
Rotunno died on 7 February 2021 in Rome at the age of 97.
Rhoon
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