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Preston Brooks
Preston Smith Brooks (1819–1857), Democratic U.S. Representative from South Carolina, caned Senator Charles Sumner on the Senate floor on May 22, 1856, over the "Crime Against Kansas" speech; resigned, was reelected, fined $300, and died in 1857.
Preston Burke
Preston Burke is a fictional cardiothoracic surgeon on Grey's Anatomy, played by Isaiah Washington in seasons 1-3 and 10. He left Cristina Yang at the altar, won a Harper Avery, founded the Klausman Institute in Zurich, and exited when Washington was fired in 2007.
Preston Cloud
Preston Cloud (1912–1991) was an American paleontologist and geologist who helped found the study of Precambrian life and explained how rising atmospheric oxygen shaped Earth's earliest rocks.
Preston Lacy
Preston Lacy (born 1969, Carthage, Missouri) is an American stunt performer, actor, and screenwriter, an original cast member of MTV's Jackass and writer on its five theatrical films, known for sketches with Wee Man.
Preston Lord homicide case
Preston Lord homicide case: fatal October 28, 2023 beating of 16-year-old Preston Lord in Queen Creek, Arizona; seven defendants, the Gilbert Goons investigation, MCAO indictments, and Preston's Law.
Preston Love Jr.
Preston Love Jr. (born 1942), Omaha activist, Black Votes Matter founder, Jesse Jackson's 1984 national campaign manager, and Democratic U.S. Senate nominee in Nebraska in 2020 (write-in) and 2024 (special election, lost to Ricketts 62.6% to 37.4%).
Preston North End F.C.
Preston North End F.C., the Lilywhites, a Championship club founded 1880 at Deepdale, Preston; Football League founder member and 1888-89 'Invincibles' first double winners; Finney and Shankly played there; Hemmings family-owned.
Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges (Edmund Preston Biden, 1898–1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and director, Hollywood's first prominent screenwriter to direct his own scripts, selling The Great McGinty to Paramount for $10 and winning its first Best Original Screenplay Oscar.
Preston Tucker
Preston Thomas Tucker (1903–1956) was an American automobile entrepreneur who founded the Tucker Corporation in Chicago and built the innovative Tucker 48; he was acquitted of fraud in 1950.
Preston Webster
Preston T. Webster is a physicist at the Air Force Research Laboratory who works on infrared semiconductor detectors and leads a team developing space sensor technologies for missile warning and weather monitoring.
Preston, England
Preston is a city in Lancashire, North West England, on the north bank of the River Ribble. It became England's 50th city in 2002 and anchors the county's largest economy.
Prestone Tynsong
Prestone Tynsong is an Indian National People's Party politician who serves as Deputy Chief Minister of Meghalaya and has held the Home and Parliamentary Affairs portfolios.
PrestonPlayz
PrestonPlayz is the alias of Preston Blaine Arsement (born 1994), a Texas YouTube gaming creator behind TBNRFrags, Preston, and PrestonPlayz channels, known for Minecraft content, Forbes-ranked earnings, and the TBNR media company.
Prestressed concrete
Prestressed concrete, also known as concrete prestressing, is concrete in which tensioned steel strands introduce permanent compression, preventing the cracking that concrete's weakness in tension would otherwise cause.
Prestupleniye i nakazaniye (2024 TV series)
Prestupleniye i nakazaniye (Преступление и наказание), 2024 Kinopoisk Russian series by Vladimir Mirzoev adapting Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment in modern St. Petersburg; 10 episodes, released 2 November 2024, rated 5.8 on Kinopoisk.
Prestwick Centre
Prestwick Centre is a NATS air traffic control center in Prestwick, Ayrshire, Scotland, fully operational since January 2010 and one of two centers managing UK upper airspace.
Presumed Innocent
Presumed Innocent (2024) is an Apple TV+ eight-episode legal thriller limited series starring Jake Gyllenhaal as prosecutor Rusty Sabich, based on Scott Turow's 1987 novel, renewed as an anthology with Rachel Brosnahan leading season 2.
Presumed Innocent (film)
Presumed Innocent (1990) is Alan J. Pakula's courtroom thriller starring Harrison Ford as prosecutor Rusty Sabich, tried for murdering his colleague and lover Carolyn Polhemus; adapted from Scott Turow's 1987 bestseller, it grossed $59.6 million in five weeks and was remade as a 2024 Apple TV+ series.
Presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome
Presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome (POHS), also called ocular histoplasmosis syndrome, is a retinal condition linked to prior Histoplasma capsulatum exposure, marked by histo spots, peripapillary atrophy, absent vitritis, and choroidal neovascularization causing vision loss.
Presumption of death
Presumption of death: legal doctrine letting courts or agencies treat a long-missing person as dead, classically after 7 unexplained years; UK Presumption of Death Act 2013, US 38 USC 108, civil law 5-20 years.
Presumption of innocence
Presumption of innocence: legal principle that an accused is treated as innocent until proved guilty, placing the burden of proof on the prosecution. Rooted in Roman and canon law, codified in the 1789 French Declaration, guaranteed by ICCPR Article 14(2), ECHR Article 6(2), and EU Directive 2016/343.
Presuntos Implicados
Presuntos Implicados is a Spanish pop band formed in 1983 in Yecla, Murcia, whose album Ser de agua (1991) and hit "Cómo hemos cambiado" sold millions.
Presuppositional apologetics
Presuppositional apologetics, also known as presuppositionalism, is a Reformed Christian method of defending the faith holding that all reasoning rests on ultimate presuppositions, developed by Cornelius Van Til and popularized by Greg Bahnsen.
Presymptomatic testing
Presymptomatic testing is a genetic test on an asymptomatic person at family risk to determine whether they inherited a disease-causing mutation for a disorder that typically appears later in life.
Presyncope
Presyncope, or near syncope, is feeling about to faint without losing consciousness, caused by reduced cerebral blood flow; causes include vasovagal, orthostatic, and cardiac conditions, with up to 25% serious outcomes in ED patients.
Pret a Manger
Pret a Manger (Pret), British sandwich and coffee chain founded in London in 1986 by Julian Metcalfe and Sinclair Beecham; shop-kitchen same-day food, organic arabica coffee, Club Pret £5/month drink subscription, 717 shops in 20 markets, £1.2bn 2024 system sales.
PRET trial
PRET (Partnership for the Rapid Elimination of Trachoma), NCT00792922: cluster-randomized azithromycin mass-treatment trials in Niger, Tanzania, and The Gambia comparing coverage and frequency for trachoma elimination.
Prêt-à-Porter (film)
Prêt-à-Porter (Ready to Wear) is Robert Altman's 1994 satirical ensemble comedy-mystery set during Paris Fashion Week, starring Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, and Kim Basinger, with real designers and supermodels as themselves; critically panned but Golden Globe-nominated.
Preta (प्रेत)
Preta (प्रेत, Pali peta, Tibetan yi dwags) means "departed": in Hindu rites the recently dead awaiting elevation to ancestor (pitri), in Buddhism a hungry-ghost realm caused by greed.
Pretargeted radioimmunotherapy
Pretargeted radioimmunotherapy (PRIT) is a two-step nuclear medicine treatment for cancer in which a tumor-targeting antibody is given first and a radiolabeled molecule second, concentrating radiation in tumors while sparing normal tissue.