The flag of the U.S. state of South Carolina has existed in some form since 1775, being based on one of the first Revolutionary War flags. South Carolina's flag was ranked as the 10th
best designed state or provincial flag in North America by a non-scientific poll on the website of the North American Vexillological Association in 2001.
Kepler-438b
Kepler-438b is an extrasolar planet that circles Kepler-438 a red dwarf star 470 light years away in the constellation Lyra. It is one of the most Earth-like planets with an Earth Simularity Index score of 0.88. The planet was discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft using the transit method, as the planet circles it star, it will cross in front of the star causing the star to be less bright as seen from Earth, which can be measured.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries &amp; CSR Qingdao Sifang C151A
Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CSR Qingdao Sifang C151A is the fourth generation of rolling stock used on the Singapore MRT system. The trains operate on the East West Line and North South Line.
The trains began operation on 27 May 2011. They were built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries and CSR Sifang. 35 six-carriage trains, totalling 210 carriages, were built in China.
Fattail scorpion
Fattail scorpion (or fat-tailed scorpion) is the main name given to scorpions from the genus Androctonus. "Androctonus" is one of the most dangerous groups of scorpion species in the world. They live in the semi-arid and arid regions of Africa and the Middle East. They are a moderate-sized scorpion. They have lengths of near 4 inches.
Stings from the "Androctonus" species are known to cause several human deaths each year.
The fat-tailed scorpion is seen widely in Armenia, Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Many countries nearby also see the fat-tailed scorpion.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries &amp; CSR Qingdao Sifang C151B
Kawasaki Heavy Industries & CSR Qingdao Sifang C151B is the fifth generation of trains used on the Singapore MRT system. The trains operate on the East West Line and North South Line.
The first train began running on the North South Line, on 16 April 2017. Until 27 May 2018, the trains only ran on the North South Line and the new Tuas West Extension of the East West Line, where the new train signalling system was turned on. This is because these new trains were installed with only new signalling system, and the rest of the East West Line did not have the new signalling system turned on yet. From 28 May 2018, these trains are now able to run on the East West Line. All 45 trains are currently running, and most of them are housed in Tuas depot.
These trains were built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries and CSR Sifang. 45 six-carriage trains, totalling 270 carriages, were built in China.
The C151B is the first train to be made with STARiS v2.0, which is a system that shows passengers information about the train's route.
The C151B is the first train to be painted with a white front, and also features a smaller SMRT logo. This train is also the last to be painted in SMRT's livery, with all following train models being painted in LTA's standard livery
Each train has a 4 digit serial number. The first number is the carriage number, the second is the train identification number-which for the C151B is a '6' and the last two are the train set numbers, which are the unique number given to that train set.
each train is made up of 2 3-car train sets coupled together. The train numbers run from 601 to 670. They are either normally coupled or cross coupled. Eg: 601/602 (normal coupling) or 603/606 (cross coupling).
Each train set is made up of the following,
Dt-Mc1-Mc2-Mc2-Mc1-Dt
Dt-Driving trailer Mc-Motor car
for example, train set 669/670 would be made up of 3669-1669-2669-2670-1670-3670
Alstom Metropolis C751A
Alstom Metropolis C751A is the first generation of communications-based train control (CBTC) rolling stock used on the Singapore MRT system. The trains operate on the North East Line.
The trains began operation on 20 June 2003. 21 six-carriage trains were built in France, by Alstom. The C751As are the first rolling stock in Singapore to be operated without a driver.
Moshe Kahlon
Moshe Kahlon, Hebrew: משה כחלון , (born November 19, 1960 in Hadera) is an Israeli politician of Kulanu ("All of Us").
Kahlon is of Libyan-Jewish descent. After being eight years in the army, he worked as a businessman. Later on, he studied politicology at Haifa University, law at Netanya Academic College and management at Harvard University.
As a member of Likud Kahlon was a Member of Knesset from 2003 to 2013. During this time he was also several times a minister (communications, welfare, and social services).
He returned into the Knesset in 2015 with Kulanu, which he founded in 2014. In the Fourth Netanyahu Government he has been finance minister since 2015. He again withdrew from Knesset in 2016. From 2019 to 2020 he again was an MK.
With Kulanu he wants to fight socioeconomic problems.
Borkum
Borkum is an island and municipality of the state of Lower Saxony, Germany. In 2016 the municipality had about 5,500 people. It covers an area of 31 km².
Borkum makes part of the East Frisian Islands (German: "Ostfriesische Inseln"). It is the most western island.
It lies west of the island of Juist (and the uninhabited islands of Brauerplate, Kachelotplate and Memmert), and east of the small Dutch island of Rottumeroog.
Henry Hillman
Henry Lea Hillman (December 25, 1918 – April 14, 2017) was an American billionaire businessman, investor, civic leader, and philanthropist. He was chairman of The Hillman Company, a family office and investment company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and owned by the Hillman family. He chaired the board of trustees of Hillman Family Foundations. which manages 18 named foundations.
Hillman died on April 14, 2017 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, aged 98.
Robert Taylor (computer scientist)
Robert William Taylor (February 10, 1932 – April 13, 2017), known as Bob Taylor, was an American Internet pioneer. He led teams that made major contributions to the personal computer, and other related technologies.
Taylor was director of ARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office from 1965 through 1969, founder and later manager of Xerox PARC's Computer Science Laboratory from 1970 through 1983, and founder and manager of Digital Equipment Corporation's Systems Research Center until 1996.
On 13 April 2017, he died at his home in Woodside, California from complications of Parkinson's disease, aged 85.
Richard V. Spencer
Richard Vaughn Spencer (born January 18, 1954) is an American politician and businessman. He was the 76th United States Secretary of the Navy from August 3, 2017 through November 24, 2019. He became the Acting United States Secretary of Defense on July 15, 2019.
He was a former Naval Aviator of U.S. Marine Corps serving from 1976-1981 and Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. serving from November 2001 to January
2008.
President Donald Trump nominated Spencer for Secretary of the Navy in April 2017. He was confirmed by the United States Senate with a voice vote on August 1, 2017.
On November 24, 2019, he was fired by Secretary of Defense Mark Esper over his handling of the Eddie Gallagher case.
Bruce Bowen
Bruce Eric Bowen Jr. (born June 14, 1971) is an American former professional basketball player.
Bowen played small forward. He studied at Cal State Fullerton. He went on to play for the National Basketball Association's Miami Heat, Boston Celtics, Philadelphia 76ers, San Antonio Spurs and the Continental Basketball Association's Rockford Lightning. He also played abroad in France.
He was a member of the Spurs teams that won the NBA championships in 2003, 2005 and 2007. Bowen became an informal ambassador for child obesity awareness. He now works as an analyst for ESPN.
Cooke County, Texas