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The Dictionary of Occupational Titles or D-O-T (DOT) refers to a publication produced by the United States Department of Labor which helped employers, government officials, and workforce development professionals to define over 13,000 different types of work, from 1938 to the late 1990s. The DOT was created by job analysts who visited thousands ...
The Selected Characteristics of Occupations (SCO) is a companion volume to the U.S. Department of Labor's Dictionary of Occupational Titles, Revised Fourth Edition, published in 1991. These volumes were intended to provide a detailed representation of thousands of individual occupations in the United States , for the purpose of occupational ...
First electroaerodynamic thrust winged Ion-propelled aircraft test flight: MIT EAD Airframe Version 2 using ionic wind on November 21, 2018. [ 266 ] First circumnavigation by autogyro : Norman Surplus flew a RotorSport UK MT-03 between June 1, 2015 and June 28, 2019 from McMinnville, Oregon , USA, for an eastbound circumnavigation.
The British Rail Class 92 is a dual-voltage electric locomotive, which can run on 25 kV AC from overhead wires or 750 V DC from a third rail.It was designed specifically to operate services through the Channel Tunnel between Great Britain and France.
c2c Class 357/0 at Upminster The refurbished interior aboard a Class 357/0. The first batch of 44 Class 357/0 units were ordered at a cost of £200 million by Prism Rail [4] in March 1997 [10] to replace the Class 310 slam-door units, and allow the return of 18 hired Class 317 sliding-door units to their other franchise West Anglia Great Northern.
Kazakhstan signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty in 1996, [9] further solidifying its stance against nuclear testing. Kazakhstan is a founding member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization , a political, economic, and security organization established in 2001, along with China, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.
This ecovillage was created in 2009 in Yunnan, China, by Xue Feng. The Second Home ecovillages emphasize harmony between human beings and nature and is a commune where all resources are shared and responsibilities such as caring for the sick and elderly, living, shelter, and transportation are communal responsibilities. [46] The theoretical ...
Lagos (/ ˈ l eɪ ɡ ɒ s / LAY-goss; [10] [11] also US: / ˈ l ɑː ɡ oʊ s / LAH-gohss; [11] [12] Yoruba: Èkó), or Lagos City, is a large metropolitan city in southwest Nigeria.With an upper population estimated above 21 million dwellers, it is the largest city in Nigeria, and the most populous urban area on the African continent.