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unusual facts about The Profession



Lord Jim

In Steven Pressfield's The Profession, one of the main character's, General Jim Salter's, nation-building efforts in an African country are described in a journalist's article, referring to him as "Lord Jim"


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ACSW

The Alberta College of Social Workers, both the designated regulatory body for the profession of social work and the professional association representing the interests of social workers in Alberta, Canada

American Society of Dental Surgeons

Among these, following in the footsteps of Pierre Fauchard the "father of modem dentistry", were some of the profession’s immortals, including Chapin A. Harris, Horace Hayden, Solyman Brown, and Eleazar Parmly.

Antonio de Olaguer y Feliú

External ornaments: the shield had six flags and two banners characteristic of Field Marshals and other ornaments (guns, spears, halberd, sword, drums, etc.) of the profession of arms.

Board of Certification, Inc.

The certification program for entry-level Athletic Trainers was meant to establish standards to meet in order to enter the profession of Athletic training.

Butch Henline

After his playing career ended in the minor leagues in 1934, he became a motel operator in Florida, but took up umpiring soon afterward after recalling that Bill Klem had encouraged him to pursue the profession.

Chartered Institute of Taxation, Ghana

It had also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Zenith University College to provide tuition in taxation for students wanting to enter the profession.

Cherokee Inspired Comfort Award

Alarmed at the disturbing number of nurses leaving the profession within their first few years in practice, Cherokee Uniforms provided a grant to Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning director David Hoffman to create a film for nurses and nursing students that would encourage, inspire and instruct.

Dale DeGroff

DeGroff is the founder and president of The Museum of the American Cocktail, the first museum in the world dedicated to education in mixology and preserving the rich history of the American cocktail and has been credited with reinventing the profession of bartending and setting off a cocktail explosion around the world.

David Nunan

In November 2006 Nunan was awarded the Convocation medal for outstanding achievement and contribution internationally to the profession of Teaching English as a second language, from Flinders University, where he earned his Ph.D. in Education and Linguistics.

Dhadi


In that age only the lower caste people, i.e. Mirasis, used to sing as the profession was not considered to be noble or respectable for higher classes/castes.

Duilio Coletti

Born in Penne, Abruzzo, he took a degree in medicine and surgery and practiced the profession for a short time.

Ely Jacques Kahn

As part of her research for her novel The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand spent a half year in 1937 as an unsalaried assistant to Kahn in his offices in his 2 Park Avenue building, where he mentored her on the profession of architecture.

Fulvio Saini

He currently lives in Muggiò and plays the profession of insurance and care the youth club of A.C. Monza Brianza 1912, and the amateur club of GES Monza, which is sports director.

Gordon Newton

Eschewing journalists with previous experience in the profession, he hired graduates straight from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, giving a start to the careers of writers such as Patrick Hutber (of Hutber's law), William Rees-Mogg, Christopher Tugendhat and Nigel Lawson.

Ham Lambert

He was noted throughout the profession for his early adoption of aseptic techniques and for his belief in the value of Vitamin E in the treatment and prevention of circulatory conditions.

Judith A. Winston

Winston has received the prestigious Thurgood Marshall Award from the District of Columbia Bar Association, the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award from the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession, and the Lawyer of the Year Award from the Women's Bar Association.

Junk man

In the television program Sanford and Son, the father's character, played by Redd Foxx, was a junkman, although even in those days the profession was not as common as it had once been.

Konditorei

The profession of confectioner was related to that of the pharmacist because the trade with sugar was exclusive to pharmacists.

Konrad Petzold

However his next movie "Dress", based on "The Emperor's New Clothes", was accused of hidden political satire, and he was temporarily dismissed from the profession.

Macon, Missouri

In that year, Charles E. Still and Harry M. Still, sons of A. T. Still, the founder of the profession of osteopathic medicine, along with Dr. Arthur G. Hildreth, established the Still-Hildreth Sanatorium, which was devoted to the treatment and care of all types of nervous and mental disorders.

Martha Schwartz

Schwartz took on old friend Will Alsop in a promotional video challenging his negative views of the profession of Landscape Architecture.

Medical college

From Alexander Severus, these associations are transformed to free compulsory, children should follow the profession of his father.

Mike Botha

Mike Botha is a master diamond cutter, with close to four decades in the profession, his training and subsequent career began in South Africa and has led him to Mauritius, Russia and Canada – from Vancouver to the Northwest Territories to Saskatchewan.

Nathaniel Hodges

In 1666, he published an attack on quacks, ‘Vindiciæ Medicinæ et Medicorum, an Apology for the Profession and Professors of Physic.’ The 1656 translation of the Aurea Themis of Michael Maier was by Nathaniel Hodges and Thomas Hodges (his father or his brother).

Pi Sigma Alpha

For the profession of political science, Pi Sigma Alpha sponsors major speakers at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association (APSA) and the several regional and state political science associations, and provides Best Paper awards for the APSA Annual Meeting and the regional political science association annual meetings.

Piper aduncum

It was introduced into the profession of medicine in the United States and Europe by a Liverpool physician in 1839 as a styptic and astringent for wounds.

Playwright

On Broadway, this has happened in the past year with Martin McDonagh's "Behanding in Spokane" and Mamet's "Race" although these shows were packaged with stars (Christopher Walken in the former) and with playwrights who are well established in the profession.

PMI North India Chapter

The North India Chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI) was founded on 25 May 2002, as an autonomous, non-profit, tax-exempted, membership association dedicated to the profession of project management.

Robert Junius

The American Antiquarian Society holds the following volume: Of the conversion of five thousand and nine hundred East-Indians, in the Isle Formosa, neere China, to the profession of the true God, in Jesus Christ; by meanes of M.

Roy Perry

Perry graduated from the University of Exeter with a degree in Government and Politics and was formerly a senior lecturer in Politics before entering the profession himself as a member of Test Valley Borough Council from 1979 to 1994.

Rubin Singer

Singer mastered the profession in the care of his father, then went to study at Central Saint Martins in London.

Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life

Michael Apple (1982, 1986) examined the hidden curriculum and concludes teachers are being proletarianised as the profession is de-skilled through the standardised curriculum.

Sir Christopher Robinson

He gained conspicuous success in this branch of the profession, was knighted on 6 February 1809, and was appointed, on 1 March 1809, to succeed Sir John Nicholl as king's advocate.

The Chartered Accountants Act, 1949

The Chartered Accountants Act, 1949 is a statute enacted by the Constituent Assembly of India, which was acting as the provisional Parliament of India in 1949 to regulate the profession of Chartered Accountants in India.

Thomas Fritsch

He is the son of the famous actor Willy Fritsch, and the outstanding actor and director Gustaf Gründgens advised 16 year old Thomas to take the profession of actor.

WFNS

Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, a non-profit charitable organization promoting creative writing and the profession of writing in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia