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Professional and working class conflict in the United States In the United States there has long been a conflict between the working class majority and the professional class. The conflict goes back to the workers revolution and age of unionized labor in the late nineteenth century.
Professional audiovisual industry The professional audiovisual industry is a multibillion-dollar industry, comprised of the manufacturers, dealers, systems integrators, consultants, programmers, presentations professionals and technology managers of audio-visual products and services.
Professional Acknowledgment for Continuing Education Professional Acknowledgment for Continuing Education credits, or PACE credits, are a type of continuing education credit sponsored by the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS). PACE credits fulfill continuing education requirements.
Professional Adventure Writer Professional Adventure Writer or PAW (sometimes called PAWS for Professional Adventure Writing System) is a program which allows the user to write textual adventure games with graphic illustrations. It was written by Tim Gilberts and Graeme Yeandle, based Yeandle's earlier system called The Quill.
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization or PATCO was a labor union that once represented air traffic controllers in the United States in matters relating to wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment.
Professional Arts Consortium The Professional Arts Consortium (also known as ProArts) is an association of six Boston, Massachusetts institutions of higher education which emphasize the visual, applied, and performing arts. The consortium allows for shared resources, such as libraries, between member schools.
Professional Association of Diving Instructors The Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) is the world's largest recreational diving membership and diver training organization founded by John Cronin and Ralph Erikson. members, including dive centers, resorts, educational facilities, instructors, and divemasters, teach the majority of the world's recreational divers.
Professional Association of Internes and Residents of Ontario The Professional Association of Internes and Residents of Ontario, also PAIRO, is the association that represents all medical doctors in the province of Ontario that are doing post-graduate medical training (residency).
Professional baseball in Taiwan Professional baseball was started in Taiwan by the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL 中華職業棒球聯盟) established in 1989 and the first historical game played by the Uni-President Lions visiting Brother Elephants's home at the now demolished Taipei Baseball Stadium on March 17, 1990. At its 1997 peak Taiwan had two leagues and a total of 11 professional baseball teams because of a row over broadcasting rights; the other league Taiwan Major League (TML 臺灣大聯盟) was established by TV tycoon Chiu Fu-sheng(邱復生) to compete with CPBL.
Professional body A professional body or professional organization, also known as a professional association or professional society, is an organization, usually non-profit, that exists to further a particular profession, to protect both the public interest and the interests of professionals. The balance between these two may be a matter of opinion.
Professional boxing Professional boxing fights are far longer than Olympic bouts (ranging from four to twelve rounds, the championship limit since the 1980's when it was shortened from fifteen rounds in an effort to increase fighter safety), headgear is not permitted, and boxers are generally allowed to take much more punishment before a fight is halted. At any time, however, the referee may stop the contest if he believes that one participant can not intelligently defend him or herself due to injury.
Professional certification A professional certification, trade certification, or professional designation often called simply certification or qualification is a designation earned by a person to certify that he is qualified to perform a job. Certification indicates that the individual has a specific set of knowledge, skills, or abilities in the view of the certifying body.
Professional conference A professional conference is a meeting of professionals in a given subject or profession, dealing with organizational matters, matters concerning the status of the profession, and scientific or technical developments. It differs from an academic conference in having broader goals, and usually a much broader attendance.
Professional courtesy Professional courtesy is the tradition among physicians to not charge for treatment of each others family. The purpose was to discourage physicians from having members of their own family as patients, as well as to foster bonds among physicians.
Professional Coin Grading Service The Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) is a third-party appraisal service for grading rare coins. It determines the condition and authenticity of each coin it grades to provide consumers with an independent knowledgeable rating on which to judge the coin.
Professional Congress Organiser A Professional Congress Organiser (PCO) is a company which specialises in the organisation and administration of congresses. The company acts as a consultant to a professional association's organisation's or other entity's organising committee, enacting its decisions whilst utilising the experience and knowledge it has gained over many years in organising events.
Professional Contractors Group The Professional Contractors Group (PCG) is a British organisation formed in 1999, initially as a protest group against the IR35 tax statute. Later, its responsibilities were expanded to cover the interests of freelance consultants and contractors such as those affected by IR35.
Professional degree A professional degree is an academic degree designed to prepare the holder for a particular career or profession, fields where scholarly research and academic activity are not the work, but rather a profession such as law, medicine, engineering, religious ministry, or education. Professional degrees may be awarded as graduate or undergraduate degrees.
Professional development Professional development often refers to skills required for maintaining a specific career path or to general skills offered through continuing education, including the more general skills area of personal development. It can be seen as training to keep current with changing technology and practices in a profession or in the concept of lifelong learning.
Professional dominant A professional dominant or professional dominatrix is a person who performs the dominant role in BDSM activities in exchange for money. Most professional dominants do not have sex in exchange for money, and do not regard themselves as prostitutes.
Professional Dart Players Association The Professional Dart Players Association (PDPA) is an organsation for professional dart players. Its intention is to look after the interests of professional players through an annually elected Board of six current professionals.
Professional Darts Corporation The Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) is a professional darts organisation, established in the United Kingdom during 1992 which split from the officially-recognised British Darts Organisation. Barry Hearn, a long-time established sports promoter is its current chairman.
Professional employer organization A Professional Employer Organization, or PEO, is a service provider utilizing a business relationship that allows outsourcing of human resources tasks, mainly for small to mid-sized businesses that do not have the need or resources for a dedicated human resources department. The concept is virtually unknown outside of the United States.
Professional Education Institute The Professional Education Institute, or PEI, (formerly known as Legacy Learning, American Marketing Systems, and AMS Direct) was founded in 1983 by Mark Holecek and Don Strumillo. PEI offers real estate education, training and coaching materials based on Carleton Sheets' programs.
Professional Engineers Ontario Professional Engineers Ontario, PEO, is the self reglatory body that governs Ontario's 65,000 professional engineers, and sets standards for and regulates engineering practice in the province. It has a statutory mandate under the Professional Engineers Act of Canada to protect the public interest where engineering is concerned.
Professional fraternity Professional fraternities, in the North American fraternity system, are organizations whose membership is restricted to students and faculty members in a particular field of professional education. Within that field, their membership is exclusive; however, they may initiate members who belong to other types of fraternities.
Professional Flight Attendants Association The Professional Flight Attendants Association (PFAA) was an independent union which represented the approximately 10,000 flight attendants employed by Northwest Airlines in North America. PFAA had been the bargaining agent for Northwest flight attendants from June 2003, when its members voted to end their 26-year association with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, until the membership voted to be represented by the Association of Flight Attendants in July 2006.
Professional Football Researchers Association The Professional Football Researchers Association (PFRA) was founded on June 22, 1979 in Canton, Ohio by sports historian and writer Bob Carroll and six other football researchers. Its website describes it this way: "The PFRA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and, in some cases, reconstructing professional football history.
Professional Footballers Association of Ireland The Professional Footballers Association of Ireland (PFAI) is the representative body for professional and semi-professional footballers in Ireland. Players from all nationalities in the eircom League are represented, not just Irish players.
Professional gambling Professional gambling is the practice of relying upon gambling as a primary source of income; in other words, gambling by vocation. Those who gamble professionally are able to rationally (and not compulsively) determine the time and money spent in their ventures.
Professional go handicaps Professional go handicaps were a system developed in Japan, in the Edo period, for handicapping professional players of the game of go against each other. With the abolition of the Oteai system, which from the 1920s had used some handicap games to determine the go ranking of professional players, this system has become obsolete.
Professional golfer In golf the distinction between amateurs and professionals is rigorously maintained. An amateur who plays for money even once usually loses his or her amateur status permanently and is banned from all amateur tournaments.
Professional Game Match Officials Board The Professional Game Match Officials Board (PGMOB) was formed when English football referees turned professional in 2001, to provide match officials for all professional games played in England. The Board consists of the three governing bodies' Chief Executives and Referees Managers in addition to The FA's Head of Refereeing.
Professional Gamers League The AMD Professional Gamers League (PGL), founded in the late 1990s, was the first professional league for computer gaming. The PGL was run by the Total Entertainment Network and was intended to do for computer gaming what the NBA, NHL and other professional leagues did for their respective sports.
Professional Golfers' Association (Great Britain & Ireland) The Professional Golfers' Association is the professional body which represents the interests of teaching and club golf professionals in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It is just one of many PGAs around the world, but like British organisations in several other sports, it has no territorial designation in its name because it was the first in the world to be founded.
Professional Golfers' Association of America Founded in 1916, the Professional Golfers' Association of America is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States and claims to be the largest working sports organization in the world with more than 28,000 members. The organization is now primarily a representative body for club and teaching professionals, as elite tournament golf in the United States is run by the PGA Tour, which became independent of the PGA of America in 1968.
Professional Championship Wrestling (Australia) Professional Championship Wrestling (PCW) is am Australian professional wrestling promotion established in 1999. It is based in Melbourne and puts on monthly events in Rowville as well as shows in Keysborough and Frankston.
Professional Chess Association The Professional Chess Association (PCA), now defunct, was created in 1993 by Garry Kasparov and Nigel Short for the marketing and organization of its chess world championship, as a consequence of the then FIDE President, Florencio Campomanes, abrogating the voting rights of the players. By regulation, the bids for the World Championship final should have been decided by three parties - FIDE, the World Champion and the Challenger.
Professional Indoor Football League The Professional Indoor Football League was the second league to successfully play indoor football as a paid pro-league sport, after the Arena Football League. Since the AFL had a patent given in 1990 on the gameplay of "Arena Football" (mainly the endzone nets), the PIFL played with mostly the same rules, but without the endzone nets.
Professional Institute of Public Service of Canada The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) is the largest multi-professional labour union in Canada, representing some 48,500 public service professionals employed at the federal and some provincial and territorial levels of government. It was founded in 1920.
Professional journalism Professional Journalism is a form of news reporting which developed in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, along with formal schools of journalism which arose at major universities. As documented by Robert McChesney, "[n]one of these schools existed in 1900; by 1915, all the major schools such as Columbia, Northwestern, Missouri, and Indiana were in full swing.
Professional Landcare Network The Professional Landcare Network (PLANET) is a professional body for lawn care professionals, landscape architecture maintenance, exterior maintenance contractors, and interiorscapers. PLANET represents 4,000 companies, mainly in the United States.
Professional Lighting Design Professional Lighting Design is a magazine in the niche architectural lighting design market. Headed by editor-in-chief Joachim Ritter, the magazine covers a wide range of subjects in the field including design issues, technological and scientific aspects, and reviews of products used in lighting design.
Professional Mobile Radio Professional Mobile Radio (also known as Private Mobile Radio (PMR) in the UK and Land Mobile Radio (LMR) in North America) are field radio communications systems which use portable, mobile, base station, and dispatch console radios and are sometimes based on such standards as MPT1327, TETRA and APCO 25 which are designed for dedicated use by specific organizations. Typical examples are the radio systems used by police forces and fire brigades.
Professional negligence In the English law of tort, professional negligence is a subset of the general rules on negligence to cover the situation in which the defendant has represented him or herself as having more than average skills and abilities. The usual rules rely on establishing that a duty of care is owed by the defendant to the claimant, and that the defendant is in breach of that duty.
Professional organizing Professional organizing is a service that helps individuals and businesses determine what to do with their items--which are generally found in a disorganized state--then helps efficiently arrange the items and create systems to maximize the utility and visual appeal of a particular area and allow easy retrieval.
Professional Performing Arts School The Professional Performing Arts School (PPAS) is a New York City public school "created in 1990 to meet the needs of two groups of students: those who wanted to pursue professional work in the arts as they earned a junior/senior high school diploma and those who wanted to study the arts as an avocation. PPAS continues that mission today as students follow a daily schedule of academic work at school each morning and intensive performing arts instruction at professional studios each afternoon.
Professional Pilots Rumour Network The Professional Pilots Rumour Network, or PPRuNe, is an Internet forum catering to airline pilots and others in the aviation industry. The site was originally started by Danny Fyne and Robin Lloyd as a "rumour exchange" for airline pilots.
Professional Poker Tour The Professional Poker Tour (PPT) is a series of televised poker tournaments, spinning off from the World Poker Tour (WPT) television series. It bills itself as the first professional poker league, and is limited to players who have established themselves on the World Poker Tour, World Series of Poker, or major participation on the poker circuit.
Professional qualifications in the United Kingdom Professional qualifications in the United Kingdom are generally awarded by professional bodies in line with their charters. These qualifications are subject to the European directives on professional qualifications.
Professional regurgitator A professional regurgitator is an entertainer whose act consists of swallowing and regurgitating various unusual objects. The objects may consist of anything from live animals (live mice: The Great Waldo light bulbs and billiard balls (Steve Starr) and kerosene] (Hadji Ali).
Professional responsibility Professional responsibility is the area of legal practice that encompasses the duties of attorneys to act in a professional manner, obey the law, avoid conflicts of interest, and put the interests of clients ahead of their own interests.
Professional revolutionaries The concept of professional revolutionaries, alternatively called cadre, is in origin a Leninist concept used to describe a body of devoted communists who spend the great majority of their time organizing their party toward proletarian revolution. This core is usually very small, and as a consequence is sometimes cited for being the cause of the return to capitalism of the so-called 'Communist states'.
Professional Regulation Commission The Professional Regulation Commission (Filipino: Komisyon sa Pamamalakad ng mga Propesyonal), otherwise known as the PRC, is a three-man commission attached to the office of the President of the Republic of the Philippines. Its mandate is to regulate and supervise the practice of the professionals who constitute the highly skilled manpower of the country.
Professional services Professional services are infrequent, technical, or unique functions performed by independent contractors or consultant whose occupation is the rendering of such services. While not limited to licentiates (individuals holding professional licences), the services are considered "professional" and the contract may run to partnerships, firms, or corporations as well as to individuals.
Professional society A professional society, like a trade association, is usually comprised of professionals who share a common bond or purpose because they work in same industry or share a common job function. These professionals (i.
Professional sports In professional sports, athletes receive payment for their performance, as opposed to amateur sports and college sports where they do not. Only in recent years has it become common that women are paid, professional athletes.
Professional submissive A professional submissive is a sex worker who performs the submissive role in BDSM activities in exchange for money. Most professional submissives do not have sex in exchange for money, and do not regard themselves as prostitutes.
Professional Spring Football League The Professional Spring Football League (PSFL) was an outdoor football league slated to begin in 1992. The league had a preview show on SportsChannel America in late 1991/early 1992, laying out the ten teams that would play.
Professional Transportation Planner A Professional Transportation Planner (PTP) is a pending certification program being sponsored by the Transportation Professional Certification Board, Inc., and promulgated by the Institute of Transportation Engineers.
Professional video camera A Professional video camera (often called a Television camera even though the use has spread) is a high-end device for recording electronic moving images (as opposed to a movie camera, that records the images on film). Originally developed for use in television studios, they are now commonly used for corporate and educational videos, music videos, direct-to-video movies, etc.
Professional video over IP Professional video over IP systems use some existing standard video codec to reduce the program material to a bitstream (such as an MPEG-2 transport stream), and then to use an Internet Protocol (IP) network to carry that bitstream encapsulated in a stream of IP packets. This is typically accomplished using some variant of the RTP protocol.
Professional virtual community A Professional virtual community (PVC) represents the combination of the concepts of virtual community and professional community. Virtual communities are defined as social systems of networks of individuals, who use computer technologies to mediate their relationships.
Professional wrestling Professional wrestling is the performance, management, and marketing of a form of entertainment based on elements of Greco-Roman wrestling, mixed martial arts, and theater. Modern professional wrestling usually features striking and other techniques, which are modelled after diverse sets of global wrestling and pugilistic styles.
Professional wrestling in Australia Professional wrestling in Australia makes up a small but growing part of Australian culture. Unlike the North American or Japanese products which have large, globally renowned organisations such as World Wrestling Entertainment or New Japan Pro Wrestling with several hundred smaller promotions, Australia has fourteen smaller independent circuit promotions which exist in all but two of the states, those being the Northern Territory and Tasmania.
Professional wrestling in the United Kingdom Professional wrestling performed within the boundaries of the United Kingdom spans over 100 years but became popular when the television show World of Sport was launched featuring wrestling in the mid-1960s, making household names of the likes of Mick McManus, Count Bartelli (the dominant wrestler in Britain during the 1940s), Giant Haystacks, Jackie Pallo, Big Daddy and Kendo Nagasaki. The sport remained a mainstay of British culture from the late then until World of Sport's cancellation in 1985.
Professional wrestling in the United States The history of professional wrestling in the United States spans well over 100 years and has had many significant moments during that period of time. From humble beginnings in the late 1880s, the sport boomed throughout the 1970s and peaked during the 1980s when the World Wrestling Federation became an international wrestling giant.
Professional wrestling school A professional wrestling school is a school or gym that teaches students the necessary skills to become pro wrestlers. The courses are sometimes taught by qualified professional instructors who have usually worked for several years as professional wrestlers themselves.
Professional wrestling tag team match types Much like singles matches, tag team professional wrestling matches can and have taken many forms. Just about any singles or melee match type can be adapted to tag teams; for example, hardcore tag team matches are commonplace.
Professional wrestling throws Much of the action in professional wrestling involves the application of techniques that involve lifting the opponent up and throwing or slamming him/her down. Some of these moves are illegal in some forms of traditional amateur wrestling because they can cause serious injury, especially in a competitive environment.
Professional wrestling tournament On various occasions in professional wrestling a single-elimination tournament of varying match types are held, often to determine a championship or number-one contendership therein. It has been known for promotions to use title tournament that are fictitious in nature (that is, the title may have been simply awarded under the pretext of winning a tournament elsewhere) - notable ones include the tournaments that established the WWE Championship, the WWE Intercontinental Championship, and the WWE United States Championship (the latter when it was the NWA United States Championship).
Professional writing Professional writing is writing that is traditionally done in a formal or professional setting, though this isn't always the case. Those who pursue careers in professional writing often end up in technical and scientific communication jobs, public relations, authoring web content, information design, writing and editing, translation, journalism, and education.
Professional Widow "Professional Widow" is a 1996 song written by singer-songwriter Tori Amos. It was originally a harpsichord-driven punk rock dirge included on her 1996 album Boys For Pele, but it gained international popularity after being remixed by house music producer Armand van Helden.
Professional Women's Bowling Association Professional Women's Bowling Association (PWBA) formed in 1960. After the organization struggled, a group of female professional bowlers left the PWBA to form the Ladies' Professional Bowlers Association in 1974.
Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame The Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame is located in Amsterdam, New York and was previously located in Schenectady, New York. Its purpose is to "preserve and promote the dignified history of professional wrestling and to enshrine and pay tribute to professional wrestlers who have advanced this national pastime in terms of athletics and entertainment.
Professionalization Professionalization is the social process by which any trade or occupation transforms itself into a true profession. This process tends to involve establishing acceptable qualifications, a professional body or association to oversee the conduct of members of the profession and some degree of demarcation of the qualified from unqualified amateurs.
Professionals in the City Professionals in the City (PNC) is the United States' largest socializing and networking organization. It offers professionals in major cities an opportunity to unwind and meet other professionals who share their interests outside of the workplace.
Professor (stock character) The Professor is a common generic name for fictional characters who fill the role of doctors, scientists, or mad scientists. While most characters identified as "the Professor" usually have a longer name, this generic title is the most commonly used.
Professor Backwards Professor Backwards (1911-1976) was an entertainer/comedian who appeared on TV from time to time from the 1950s to the early 1970s. His act consisted of his ability to quickly write in script that was upside down and/or backwards, and would read correctly when the blackboard was rotated.
Professor Bobo Professor Bobo is a fictional character who appeared in the final three seasons of Mystery Science Theater 3000, a comedy television series that mocks B-movies. Played by Kevin Murphy (who also voiced and operated robot Tom Servo on the show), Bobo is a sentient, speaking gorilla from several hundred years in the future, a homage to the film Planet of the Apes.
Professor Calculus Professor Cuthbert Calculus (Professeur Tryphon Tournesol, literally Professor Tryphonius Sunflower) is a fictional character in the series The Adventures of Tintin. He's a distracted, hard-of-hearing professor, who invented many objects used in the series, such as a one-person shark-shaped submarine, the Moon rocket and an ultrasound weapon.
Professor David Robinson David Robinson was a passionate Irish horticultural scientist who made important constributions to the national and international field of horticulture and agriculture throughout his entire life. After a working life in the field of research, retirement saw his life change.
Professor Dowell's Head Professor Dowell's Head is a science fiction short novel by a Russian writer Alexander Belayev. The plot concerns a young woman hired to take care of a head of a professor--the head is artifitially kept alive without the body.
Professor Elm In the world of Pokémon, Professor Elm (Utsugi-Hakase as he is known in Japan) is in charge of giving novice trainers their first Pokémon in the video games Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal. According to the story, he was a student of Professor Oak and moved to New Bark Town in the region of Johto where he conducts his research on Pokémon evolution and breeding.
Professor Finbarr Calamitous Professor Finbarr Calamitous is one of the villains that Jimmy Neutron encounters in the television cartoon series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius voiced by Tim Curry. Every time he gets thwarted, he says something to the lines of 'I'll get you Jimmy Neutron!
Professor Hacker's Lost Treasure Miniature Golf Professor Hacker's Lost Treasure Miniature Golf are a group of miniature golf courses located in the Eastern United States. There are current eight courses under the name, with a ninth currently in development in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Professor Hackle Professor Hackle is a fictional character in the animated television series SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron. He is an elderly inventor who once worked at Puma-Dyne Labs designg weapons of mass destruction for the military.
Professor Hamilton Professor Emil Hamilton is a fictional character in DC Comics' Superman titles. He is generally portrayed as a stereotypical absent-minded professor, with a gray beard and thick glasses and, at times, sort of a "Mr.
Professor Henry Lewis(1889-1968) Henry Lewis was born on 21 Agust 1889 at Clydach in the Swansea Valley. An industrial valley which had retained its Welshness and he was an exceptionally able scholar at school in Ystalfera and later in the University of Wales, Cardiff.
Professor Hobo Professor Hobo is the title of an original comic strip, and its subsequent animated series, created by Justin Young and David Rothwell. The first comic strip was created and issued in January of 2002 in the Murray State News,the school newspaper of Murray State University, where Young and Rothwell were students at the time.
Professor Challenger George Edward Challenger, better known as Professor Challenger, is a fictional character in a series of science fiction stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Unlike Conan Doyle's cool, analytic Sherlock Holmes, Professor Challenger is an aggressive, dominating figure.
Professor Chromedome Professor Chromedome is a fictional character from The Tick comics and cartoon. Generally in the employ of Chairface Chippendale, Chromedome is the stereotypical ex-Nazi mad scientist, who will work for anyone so long as they pay his expences.
Professor Layton and the Mysterious Village Professor Layton and the Mysterious Village is an adventure game developed and published by Level-5 for the Nintendo DS. The game combines a traditional narrative with puzzle focused gameplay similar to that of Nintendo's extremely popular Brain Training series.
Professor M. A. Ramlu Professor Madisetti Anant Ramlu has served as Professor, Dean and Acting Director of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, till his retirement in 1997. He is an expert in the area of mines safety, machinery, and open-cast mining.
Professor Molchanov Professor Molchanov () is a Russian (formerly Soviet) Finnish-built Oceanographic Ice-Class Research Vessel now converted to passenger duties for the expedition cruise market. It was named after Pavel Molchanov, radiosonde inventor, on his 90th anniversary.
Professor Monkey-For-A-Head Professor Monkey-For-A-Head is a fictional villain created in the Earthworm Jim video games and animated series. He is the scientist who invented the ultra-high-tech-indestructible-super-space-cyber-suit for Queen Slug-for-a-Butt, which Psy-Crow ended up losing.
Professor Moriarty Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character who is the best known antagonist (and archenemy) of the detective Sherlock Holmes. Widely considered to be the first true example of a supervillain, Moriarty is a criminal mastermind, described by Holmes as the "Napoleon of Crime".
Professor Night Professor Night is a fictional character created by Alan Moore in the Supreme comic book, wherein most heroes and villains are thinly-disguised counterparts of DC icons. Although his name is derivative of Doctor Mid-Nite, the character is otherwise clearly intended be a counterpart of Batman.
Professor Norton Nimnul Professor Norton Nimnul is a fictional character created by The Walt Disney Company for the animated series Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, and the comic book based off of it. He is a wacky mad scientist whose elaborate plans are often foiled by the Rescue Rangers (or as he calls them, "the rodents").
Professor of Anatomy, Cambridge University The chair of the Professor of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge was founded by the university in 1707. In 1924, the scope of the professorship was extended from purely human anatomy to cover the anatomy of all vertebrates, as well as embryology.

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