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15226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irredentism | Irredentism | Irredentism is a political and popular movement whose members claim (usually on behalf of their nation), and seek to occupy, territory which they consider "lost" (or "unredeemed"), based on history or legend. The scope of this definition is occasionally subject to terminological disputes about underlying claims of expa... |
15227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit%20languages | Inuit languages | The Inuit languages are a closely related group of indigenous American languages traditionally spoken across the North American Arctic and to some extent in the subarctic in Labrador. The related Yupik languages are spoken in western and southern Alaska and in the far east of Russia, but are severely endangered in Russ... |
15229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn%20Battuta | Ibn Battuta | El-Hajji Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Battuta (; 24 February 13041368/1369), commonly known as Ibn Battuta, was an Arab-Berber Maghrebi scholar and explorer who travelled extensively in the lands of Afro-Eurasia, largely in the lands of Dar al-Islam, travelling more than any other explorer in pre-modern history, totalling... |
15231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20Services%20Digital%20Network | Integrated Services Digital Network | Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) is a set of communication standards for simultaneous digital transmission of voice, video, data, and other network services over the digitalised circuits of the public switched telephone network. Work on the standard began in 1980 at Bell Labs and was formally standardized in ... |
15235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomic%20imprinting | Genomic imprinting | Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon that causes genes to be expressed or not, depending on whether they are inherited from the mother or the father. Genes can also be partially imprinted. Partial imprinting occurs when alleles from both parents are differently expressed rather than complete expression and co... |
15236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN | ICANN | The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN ) is an American multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces and numerical spaces of the Internet, ensuring the network's stable and secure ope... |
15237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative%20method | Iterative method | In computational mathematics, an iterative method is a mathematical procedure that uses an initial value to generate a sequence of improving approximate solutions for a class of problems, in which the n-th approximation is derived from the previous ones. A specific implementation of an iterative method, including the t... |
15238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20judicial%20institution | International judicial institution | International judicial institutions can be divided into courts, arbitral tribunals and quasi-judicial institutions. Courts are permanent bodies, with near the same composition for each case. Arbitral tribunals, by contrast, are constituted anew for each case. Both courts and arbitral tribunals can make binding decision... |
15239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Prize%20Court | International Prize Court | The International Prize Court was an international court proposed at the beginning of the 20th century, to hear prize cases. An international agreement to create it, the Convention Relative to the Creation of an International Prize Court, was made at the Second Hague Conference in 1907 but never came into force.
The c... |
15240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam | Imam | Imam (; ; plural: ) is an Islamic leadership position. For Sunni Muslims, Imam is most commonly used as the title of a worship leader of a mosque. In this context, imams may lead Islamic worship services, lead prayers, serve as community leaders, and provide religious guidance. Thus for Sunnis, anyone can study the b... |
15242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument%20flight%20rules | Instrument flight rules | In aviation, instrument flight rules (IFR) is one of two sets of regulations governing all aspects of civil aviation aircraft operations; the other is visual flight rules (VFR).
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Instrument Flying Handbook defines IFR as: "Rules and regulations established by the FAA to ... |
15245 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail%20Khan | Ismail Khan | Mohammad Ismail Khan (Dari/Pashto: محمد اسماعیل خان) (born 1946) is an Afghan former politician who served as Minister of Energy and Water from 2005 to 2013 and before that served as the governor of Herat Province. Originally a captain in the national army, he is widely known as a former warlord as he controlled a larg... |
15250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo | Indigo | Indigo is a deep color close to the color wheel blue (a primary color in the RGB color space), as well as to some variants of ultramarine, based on the ancient dye of the same name. The word "indigo" comes from the Latin for Indian as the dye was originally exported to Europe from India.
It is traditionally regarded a... |
15251 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Monetary%20Fund | International Monetary Fund | The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an international financial institution, headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of 190 countries. Its stated mission is "working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable econo... |
15252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islands%20of%20the%20Clyde | Islands of the Clyde | The Islands of the Firth of Clyde are the fifth largest of the major Scottish island groups after the Inner and Outer Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland. They are situated in the Firth of Clyde between Ayrshire and Argyll and Bute. There are about forty islands and skerries. Only four are inhabited, and only nine are larger... |
15253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Bank%20Account%20Number | International Bank Account Number | The International Bank Account Number (IBAN) is an internationally agreed system of identifying bank accounts across national borders to facilitate the communication and processing of cross border transactions with a reduced risk of transcription errors. An IBAN uniquely identifies the account of a customer at a financ... |
15254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitive | Infinitive | Infinitive (abbreviated ) is a linguistics term for certain verb forms existing in many languages, most often used as non-finite verbs. As with many linguistic concepts, there is not a single definition applicable to all languages. The word is derived from Late Latin [modus] infinitivus, a derivative of infinitus meani... |
15256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate%20Conception | Immaculate Conception | The Immaculate Conception is a doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church that states that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception.
First debated by medieval theologians, it proved so controversial that it did not become part of official Catholic teaching until 1854, when Pius IX gave it ... |
15260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islands%20of%20the%20North%20Atlantic | Islands of the North Atlantic | IONA (Islands of the North Atlantic) is an acronym suggested in 1980 by Sir John Biggs-Davison to refer to a loose linkage of England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, the Isle of Man and Channel Islands, similar to the present day British-Irish Council. Its intended purpose was as a more politically acceptable alternative t... |
15261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20DX4 | Intel DX4 | IntelDX4 is a clock-tripled i486 microprocessor with 16-kB Level 1 cache. Intel named it DX4 (rather than DX3) as a consequence of litigation with AMD over trademarks. The product was officially named IntelDX4, but OEMs continued using the i486 naming convention.
Intel produced IntelDX4s with two clock speed stepping... |
15264 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus%20%28disambiguation%29 | Iapetus (disambiguation) | Iapetus is a Titan in Greek mythology.
Iapetus may also refer to:
Iapetus (moon), one of the planet Saturn's moons, named for the mythological Titan
Iapetus Ocean, an ancient ocean between the paleocontinents Laurentia and Baltica
Iapetus suture, line of closure of the Iapetus Ocean |
15266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20Fiction%20Competition | Interactive Fiction Competition | The Interactive Fiction Competition (also known as IFComp) is one of several annual competitions for works of interactive fiction. It has been held since 1995. It is intended for fairly short games, as judges are only allowed to spend two hours playing a game before deciding how many points to award it. The competition... |
15267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunity | Immunity | Immunity may refer to:
Medicine
Immunity (medical), resistance of an organism to infection or disease
Immunity (journal), a scientific journal published by Cell Press
Biology
Immune system
Engineering
Radiofrequence immunity describes how well an electronic circuit is protected against electromagnetic interfere... |
15268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquests%20in%20England%20and%20Wales | Inquests in England and Wales | Inquests in England and Wales are held into sudden or unexplained deaths and also into the circumstances of and discovery of a certain class of valuable artefacts known as "treasure trove". In England and Wales, inquests are the responsibility of a coroner, who operates under the jurisdiction of the Coroners and Justic... |
15270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index | Index | Index may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
Index (A Certain Magical Index), a character in the light novel series A Certain Magical Index
The Index, an item on a Halo megastructure in the Halo series of video games
Periodicals and news portals
Index Magazine, a publication for art and c... |
15271 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20retrieval | Information retrieval | Information retrieval (IR) in computing and information science is the process of obtaining information system resources that are relevant to an information need from a collection of those resources. Searches can be based on full-text or other content-based indexing. Information retrieval is the science of searching f... |
15272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian-language%20poets | List of Italian-language poets | List of poets who wrote in Italian (or Italian dialects).
A
Antonio Abati
Luigi Alamanni
Aleardo Aleardi
Dante Alighieri
Cecco Angiolieri
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Ludovico Ariosto
Francis of Assisi
B
Nanni Balestrini
Dario Bellezza
Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli (Roman dialect)
Attilio Bertolucci
Carlo Betocchi
Alberta Bigag... |
15274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Criminal%20Tribunal%20for%20the%20former%20Yugoslavia | International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia | The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was a body of the United Nations that was established to prosecute the war crimes that had been committed during the Yugoslav Wars and to try their perpetrators. The tribunal was an ad hoc court located in The Hague, Netherlands.
It was established b... |
15275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%20216 | ISO 216 | ISO 216 is an international standard for paper sizes, used around the world except in North America and parts of Latin America. The standard defines the "A", "B" and "C" series of paper sizes, including A4, the most commonly available paper size worldwide. Two supplementary standards, ISO 217 and ISO 269, define relate... |
15276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%203864 | ISO 3864 | ISO 3864 specifies international standards for safety signs and markings in workplaces and public facilities. These labels are graphical, to overcome language barriers. The standard is split into four parts:
ISO 3864-1:2011 Part 1: Design principles for safety signs and safety
ISO 3864-2:2016 Part 2: Design principle... |
15281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20Abendana | Isaac Abendana | Isaac Abendana (c.1640–1699) was the younger brother of Jacob Abendana, and became hakam of the Spanish Portuguese Synagogue in London after his brother died.
Abendana moved to England before his brother, in 1662, and taught Hebrew at Cambridge University. He completed an unpublished Latin translation of the Mishnah ... |
15284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20intelligence%20agencies | List of intelligence agencies | This is a list of intelligence agencies by country. It includes only currently operational institutions.
An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, and foreign policy objectives.
Af... |
15285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Engineering%20Task%20Force | Internet Engineering Task Force | The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is an open standards organization, which develops and promotes voluntary Internet standards, in particular the technical standards that comprise the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP). It has no formal membership roster or membership requirements. All participants and managers a... |
15286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISM%20radio%20band | ISM radio band | The ISM radio bands are portions of the radio spectrum reserved internationally for industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) purposes, excluding applications in telecommunications.
Examples of applications for the use of radio frequency (RF) energy in these bands include radio-frequency process heating, microwave oven... |
15287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series%20%28mathematics%29 | Series (mathematics) | In mathematics, a series is, roughly speaking, a description of the operation of adding infinitely many quantities, one after the other, to a given starting quantity. The study of series is a major part of calculus and its generalization, mathematical analysis. Series are used in most areas of mathematics, even for st... |
15289 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt | Interrupt | In digital computers, an interrupt (sometimes referred to as a trap) is a request for the processor to interrupt currently executing code (when permitted), so that the event can be processed in a timely manner. If the request is accepted, the processor will suspend its current activities, save its state, and execute a ... |
15290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercalation%20%28timekeeping%29 | Intercalation (timekeeping) | Intercalation or embolism in timekeeping is the insertion of a leap day, week, or month into some calendar years to make the calendar follow the seasons or moon phases. Lunisolar calendars may require intercalations of both days and months.
Solar calendars
The solar or tropical year does not have a whole number of d... |
15291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercourse | Intercourse | Intercourse may refer to:
Sexual intercourse, the most common penetrative sex
Interpersonal communication, talk, any kind of human communication and/or interaction
Places
Intercourse, Alabama, US
Intercourse, Pennsylvania, US
Intercourse Island, in Western Australia
Arts and media
Books
Intercourse (book), th... |
15292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink | Ink | Ink is a gel, sol, or solution that contains at least one colourant, such as a dye or pigment, and is used to color a surface to produce an image, text, or design. Ink is used for drawing or writing with a pen, brush, reed pen, or quill. Thicker inks, in paste form, are used extensively in letterpress and lithographic ... |
15294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamabad%20Capital%20Territory | Islamabad Capital Territory | Islamabad Capital Territory () is the only federal territory of Pakistan. Located between Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It includes the country's federal capital Islamabad. The territory is represented in the National Assembly constituencies NA-52, NA-53 and NA-54.
History
In 1960, land was transferred from... |
15295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent%20design | Intelligent design | Intelligent design (ID) is a pseudoscientific argument for the existence of God, presented by its proponents as "an evidence-based scientific theory about life's origins". Proponents claim that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process s... |
15302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrin | Integrin | Integrins are transmembrane receptors that facilitate cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix (ECM) adhesion. Upon ligand binding, integrins activate signal transduction pathways that mediate cellular signals such as regulation of the cell cycle, organization of the intracellular cytoskeleton, and movement of new recep... |
15303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20channel | Ion channel | Ion channels are pore-forming membrane proteins that allow ions to pass through the channel pore. Their functions include establishing a resting membrane potential, shaping action potentials and other electrical signals by gating the flow of ions across the cell membrane, controlling the flow of ions across secretory a... |
15304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDE | IDE | IDE, iDE, or Ide may refer to:
Organisations
Institut für Dokumentologie und Editorik, a German think tank for the application of digital methods on historical documents
Institute of Developing Economies, a semi-governmental research institute in Japan
Institute for Democratic Education, founded by Yaacov Hecht
In... |
15305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20development%20environment | Integrated development environment | An integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE normally consists of at least a source code editor, build automation tools and a debugger. Some IDEs, such as NetBeans and Eclipse, contain the necessary ... |
15308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian%20McKellen | Ian McKellen | Sir Ian Murray McKellen (born 25 May 1939) is an English actor. His career spans seven decades, having performed in genres ranging from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. Over his career he has received numerous awards including seven Laurence Olivier Awards, a Tony Award, a Golde... |
15309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellivision | Intellivision | The Intellivision is a home video game console released by Mattel Electronics in 1979. The name is a portmanteau of "intelligent television". Development began in 1977, the same year as the launch of its main competitor, the Atari 2600. In 1984, Mattel sold its video game assets to a former Mattel Electronics executive... |
15316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism | Imperialism | Imperialism is a policy or ideology of extending rule over peoples and other countries, for extending political and economic access, power and control, often through employing hard power, especially military force, but also soft power. While related to the concepts of colonialism and empire, imperialism is a distinct c... |
15317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4 | IPv4 | Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the fourth version of the Internet Protocol (IP). It is one of the core protocols of standards-based internetworking methods in the Internet and other packet-switched networks. IPv4 was the first version deployed for production on SATNET in 1982 and on the ARPANET in January 1983. ... |
15318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6 | IPv6 | Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. IPv6 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to deal with the... |
15319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca%20Empire | Inca Empire | The Inca Empire, also known as Incan Empire and the Inka Empire, and at the time known as the Realm of the Four Parts, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political and military center of the empire was in the city of Cusco. The Inca civilization arose from the Peruvian highlands someti... |
15321 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca%20%28disambiguation%29 | Inca (disambiguation) | The Inca Empire was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.
Inca, Inka, or İncə may also refer to:
Inca civilization, centered in what is now Peru
Inca people, the people of the Inca Empire
Quechua people, the people of the Inca civilization
Inca language, the Quechuan languages
Sapa Inca or Inka, the main ... |
15323 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Protocol | Internet Protocol | The Internet Protocol (IP) is the network layer communications protocol in the Internet protocol suite for relaying datagrams across network boundaries. Its routing function enables internetworking, and essentially establishes the Internet.
IP has the task of delivering packets from the source host to the destination ... |
15328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment | Impeachment | Impeachment is the process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct. It may be understood as a unique process involving both political and legal elements.
In Europe and Latin America impeachment tends to be confined to ministerial offi... |
15334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibizan%20Hound | Ibizan Hound | The Ibizan Hound (, ) is a lean, agile dog of the hound family. There are two hair types of the breed: smooth and wire. The more commonly seen type is the smooth. Some consider there to be a third type, long, but the longhair is most likely a variation of the wire.
Description
Looks
The Ibizan Hound is an elegant an... |
15335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20Wolfhound | Irish Wolfhound | The Irish Wolfhound is a historic sighthound dog breed from Ireland that has, by its presence and substantial size, inspired literature, poetry and mythology. Like all sighthounds, it is used to hunt game by speed, and historically has also been famed as a guard dog specialising in protection against and for the huntin... |
15336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian%20Greyhound | Italian Greyhound | The Italian Greyhound () is an Italian breed of small sighthound. It may also be called the Italian Sighthound.
History
Small dogs of sighthound type have long been popular with nobility and royalty. Among those believed to have kept them are Frederick II, Duke of Swabia; members of the D'Este, Medici and Visconti f... |
15341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into%20the%20Woods | Into the Woods | Into the Woods is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by James Lapine.
The musical intertwines the plots of several Brothers Grimm fairy tales, exploring the consequences of the characters' wishes and quests. The main characters are taken from "Little Red Riding Hood" (spelled "ridinghood" ... |
15342 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20Klein | Isaac Klein | Isaac Klein (September 5, 1905 – January 23, 1979) was a prominent rabbi and halakhic authority within Conservative Judaism.
Personal life, education, and career
Klein was born in the small village of Várpalánka, today part of Mukachevo, in what was then Hungary. He emigrated with his family to the United States in 1... |
15343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intron | Intron | An intron (for intragenic region) is any nucleotide sequence within a gene that is removed by RNA splicing during maturation of the final RNA product. In other words, introns are non-coding regions of an RNA transcript, or the DNA encoding it, that are eliminated by splicing before translation. The word intron is deriv... |
15345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEE | IEE | IEE may stand for:
Industrial Electronics Engineers, an aerospace display manufacturer; see nimo tube
Initial Environmental Evaluation, a preliminary environmental impact assessment
Institute for Energy Efficiency, a research institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Institute for Energy & Environm... |
15346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20National%20Remembrance | Institute of National Remembrance | The Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation (, abbreviated IPN) is a Polish state research institute in charge of education and archives with investigative and lustration powers. The IPN was established by the Polish parliament by the Act on the Institute o... |
15347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence%20%28disambiguation%29 | Intelligence (disambiguation) | Intelligence is one or more capacities of the mind.
Intelligence may also refer to:
Information
Intelligence (information), information collected for use
Business intelligence, data transformed into meaningful and useful information for business analysis purposes
Espionage, or intelligence, the clandestine acquisi... |
15352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identical%20particles | Identical particles | In quantum mechanics, identical particles (also called indistinguishable or indiscernible particles) are particles that cannot be distinguished from one another, even in principle. Species of identical particles include, but are not limited to, elementary particles (such as electrons), composite subatomic particles (su... |
15354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial%20cystitis | Interstitial cystitis | Interstitial cystitis (IC), a type of bladder pain syndrome (BPS), is chronic pain that affects the bladder and pelvic floor. Together with Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome, it makes up urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome (UCPPS). Symptoms include feeling the need to urinate right away, needing to uri... |
15355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICI | ICI | ICI or Ici may refer to:
Companies and organisations
ICI Homes, homebuilder in Florida. US
Imperial Chemical Industries, former British chemicals, paints and pharmaceuticals company
ICI Australia, a subsidiary which became Australian company Orica
Independent Curators International, a non-profit headquartered in ... |
15356 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial%20Chemical%20Industries | Imperial Chemical Industries | Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was a British chemical company. It was, for much of its history, the largest manufacturer in Britain.
It was formed by the merger of four leading British chemical companies in 1926.
Its headquarters were at Millbank in London. ICI was a constituent of the FT 30 and later the FTSE 100 ... |
15357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial%20Airways | Imperial Airways | Imperial Airways was the early British commercial long-range airline, operating from 1924 to 1939 and principally serving the British Empire routes to South Africa, India and the Far East, including Australia, Malaya and Hong Kong. Passengers were typically businessmen or colonial administrators, most flights carried a... |
15358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insanity%20defense | Insanity defense | The insanity defense, also known as the mental disorder defense, is an affirmative defense by excuse in a criminal case, arguing that the defendant is not responsible for their actions due to an episodic or persistent psychiatric disease at the time of the criminal act. This is contrasted with an excuse of provocation,... |
15361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20age | Ice age | An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages and greenhouse periods, during which there are no glaciers on the planet. Earth is cu... |
15362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving%20Langmuir | Irving Langmuir | Irving Langmuir (; January 31, 1881 – August 16, 1957) was an American chemist, physicist, and engineer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1932 for his work in surface chemistry.
Langmuir's most famous publication is the 1919 article "The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules" in which, building... |
15365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association%20of%20Travel%20Agents%20Network | International Association of Travel Agents Network | The International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) is a Miami based association in the USA representing the interests of its member companies (airlines) and the U.S. travel distribution network (travel agencies). It is an independent department of the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
In addition, i... |
15368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider%20trading | Insider trading | Insider trading is the trading of a public company's stock or other securities (such as bonds or stock options) based on material, nonpublic information about the company. In various countries, some kinds of trading based on insider information is illegal. This is because it is seen as unfair to other investors who do ... |
15369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Brigades | International Brigades | The International Brigades () were military units set up by the Communist International to assist the Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. The organization existed for two years, from 1936 until 1938. It is estimated that during the entire war, between 40,000 and 59,000 ... |
15373 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%20Duke | Iron Duke | Iron Duke may refer to:
People
William Mark Duke (1879–1971), Archbishop of Vancouver
Irvin Khoza (born 1948), South African football administrator
John F. Thompson (politician) (1920–1965), U.S. politician
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba (1507–1582), Spanish noble, general, and diplomat involved in ... |
15374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20irradiation | Food irradiation | Food irradiation is the process of exposing food and food packaging to ionizing radiation, such as from gamma rays, x-rays, or electron beams. When ionizing radiation passes through a food product, some energy is absorbed by some chemical bonds. Some bonds rupture and produce free radicals which are highly reactive and... |
15378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper%20IUDs | Copper IUDs | Intrauterine device (IUD) with copper, also known as intrauterine coil, is a type of intrauterine device which contains copper. It is used for birth control and emergency contraception within five days of unprotected sex. It is one of the most effective forms of birth control with a one-year failure rate around 0.7%. T... |
15379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle%20Royale%20National%20Park | Isle Royale National Park | Isle Royale National Park is an American national park consisting of Isle Royale and more than 400 small adjacent islands, as well as the surrounding waters of Lake Superior, in the state of Michigan. Isle Royale is long and wide, with an area of , making it the fourth-largest lake island in the world. In addition, i... |
15381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO%20Integrated%20Air%20Defense%20System | NATO Integrated Air Defense System | The NATO Integrated Air Defense System (short: NATINADS) is a command and control network combining radars and other facilities spread throughout the NATO alliance's air defence forces. It formed in the mid-1950s and became operational in 1962 as NADGE. It has been constantly upgraded since its formation, notably with ... |
15382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible%20balance | Invisible balance | The invisible balance or balance of trade on services is that part of the balance of trade that refers to services and other products that do not result in the transfer of physical objects. Examples include consulting services, shipping services, tourism, and patent license revenues. This figure is usually generated by... |
15387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducible%20complexity | Irreducible complexity | Irreducible complexity (IC) is the argument that certain biological systems cannot have evolved by successive small modifications to pre-existing functional systems through natural selection, because no less complex system would function. Irreducible complexity has become central to the creationist concept of intellige... |
15388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion%20in%20pre-Islamic%20Arabia | Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia | Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia included indigenous Arabian polytheism, ancient Semitic religions, Christianity, Judaism, Mandaeism, and Iranian religions such as Zoroastrianism, and Manichaeism.
Arabian polytheism, the dominant form of religion in pre-Islamic Arabia, was based on veneration of deities and spirits. Wor... |
15392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial%20Conference | Imperial Conference | Imperial Conferences (Colonial Conferences before 1907) were periodic gatherings of government leaders from the self-governing colonies and dominions of the British Empire between 1887 and 1937, before the establishment of regular Meetings of Commonwealth Prime Ministers in 1944. They were held in 1887, 1894, 1897, 190... |
15395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Refugee%20Organization | International Refugee Organization | The International Refugee Organization (IRO) was an intergovernmental organization founded on 20 April 1946 to deal with the massive refugee problem created by World War II. A Preparatory Commission began operations fourteen months previously. In 1948, the treaty establishing the IRO formally entered into force and the... |
15396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRO | IRO | IRO, Iro, or iro may refer to:
Organizations
Institution of Railway Operators (Chartered Institution of Railway Operators since October 2021)
Internal Revolutionary Organization, Bulgaria
International Refugee Organization, a United Nations agency 1946–1952
International Rescue Dog Organisation
Jewish Industrial... |
15401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella%20d%27Este | Isabella d'Este | Isabella d'Este (19 May 1474 – 13 February 1539) was Marchioness of Mantua and one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance as a major cultural and political figure. She was a patron of the arts as well as a leader of fashion, whose innovative style of dressing was copied by women throughout Italy and at the Fre... |
15402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20standard | International standard | An international standard is a technical standard developed by one or more international standards organizations. International standards are available for consideration and use worldwide. The most prominent such organization is the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Other prominent international sta... |
15403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%204217 | ISO 4217 | ISO 4217 is a standard published by International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines alpha codes and numeric codes for the representation of currencies and provides information about the relationships between individual currencies and their minor units. This data is published in three tables:
Table A.... |
15406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun | Irgun | The Irgun (; full title: , lit. "The National Military Organization in the Land of Israel") was a Zionist paramilitary organization that operated in Mandate Palestine between 1931 and 1948. The organization is also referred to as Etzel (), an acronym of the Hebrew initials, or by the abbreviation IZL. It was an offsho... |
15408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoroku%20Yamamoto | Isoroku Yamamoto | was a Japanese Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II until his death.
Yamamoto held several important posts in the IJN, and undertook many of its changes and reorganizations, especially its development of naval aviation. He was the comm... |
15412 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared%20spectroscopy | Infrared spectroscopy | Infrared spectroscopy (IR spectroscopy or vibrational spectroscopy) is the measurement of the interaction of infrared radiation with matter by absorption, emission, or reflection. It is used to study and identify chemical substances or functional groups in solid, liquid, or gaseous forms. It can be used to characterize... |
15414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irenaeus | Irenaeus | Irenaeus (; Eirēnaios; c. 130 – c. 202 AD) was a Greek bishop noted for his role in guiding and expanding Christian communities in the southern regions of present-day France and, more widely, for the development of Christian theology by combating heresy and defining orthodoxy. Originating from Smyrna, he had seen and ... |
15416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Involuntary%20commitment | Involuntary commitment | Involuntary commitment, civil commitment, involuntary hospitalization or involuntary hospitalisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), (also known informally as sectioning or being sectioned in some jurisdictions, such as the United Kingdom) is a legal process through which an individual who is deemed b... |
15417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermolecular%20force | Intermolecular force | An intermolecular force (IMF) (or secondary force) is the force that mediates interaction between molecules, including the electromagnetic forces of attraction
or repulsion which act between atoms and other types of neighboring particles, e.g. atoms or ions. Intermolecular forces are weak relative to intramolecular for... |
15420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRQ | IRQ | IRQ may refer to:
Interrupt request, a computer hardware signal
Iraq (ISO 3166-1 country code)
Qeshm Air (ICAO airline designator) |
15422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Internet%20top-level%20domains | List of Internet top-level domains | This list of Internet top-level domains (TLD) contains top-level domains, which are those domains in the DNS root zone of the Domain Name System of the Internet. A list of the top-level domains by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is maintained at the Root Zone Database. IANA also oversees the approval pro... |
15428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealism | Idealism | In philosophy, the term idealism identifies and describes metaphysical perspectives which assert that reality is indistinguishable and inseparable from human perception and understanding; that reality is a mental construct closely connected to ideas. Idealist perspectives are in two categories: (i) Subjective idealism,... |
15430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inheritance | Inheritance | Inheritance is the practice of passing on private property, titles, debts, entitlements, privileges, rights, and obligations upon the death of an individual. The rules of inheritance differ among societies and have changed over time. The passing on of private property and/or debts can be done by a notary.
Terminology
... |
15435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius%20of%20Antioch | Ignatius of Antioch | Ignatius of Antioch (; Greek: Ἰγνάτιος Ἀντιοχείας, Ignátios Antiokheías; died c. 108/140 AD), also known as Ignatius Theophorus (, Ignátios ho Theophóros, lit. "the God-bearing"), was an early Christian writer and Patriarch of Antioch. While en route to Rome, where he met his martyrdom, Ignatius wrote a series of lette... |
15437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU%20prefix | ITU prefix | The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) allocates call sign prefixes for radio and television stations of all types. They also form the basis for, but may not exactly match, aircraft registration identifiers. These prefixes are agreed upon internationally, and are a form of country code. A call sign can be any ... |
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