I The letter I is the ninth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its English name is pronounced .
	I-beam I-beams are beam with an I- or H-shaped cross-section. The Euler-Bernoulli beam equation shows that this is a very efficient form for carrying bending and in the plane of the web, as well as shear. It is not as capable in the transverse direction, and it is a poor choice for carrying torsion.
	I. F. Stone Isidor Feinstein Stone was an iconoclastic United States investigative journalism. He is best remembered for his political newsletter, I.F. Stone's Weekly , which had a rather small circulation, but was regarded as very influential.
	I. M. Pei Ieoh Ming Pei , commonly known by his initials I. M. Pei, is a Pritzker Prize-winning architect, known as the last master of high modernist architecture. He works with the abstract form, using Rock , concrete, glass, and steel. Pei is one of the most successful architects of the 20th century.
	Iago Iago is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's Othello. Iago, second in friendship to Othello behind Cassio, spends most of the play attempting to bring about Othello's downfall by leading him to believe his wife, Desdemona, is being unfaithful to him with Cassio, his chief lieutenant.
	Ian Fleming Ian Lancaster Fleming was an British literature and journalist, best remembered for writing the James Bond series of novels as well as the children's story, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
	Ian Smith Ian Douglas Smith, Legion of Merit Unilateral Declaration of Independence, was the Premier of the British Crown Colony of Southern Rhodesia from 13 April, 1964 to 11 November, 1965, and Prime Minister of Rhodesia of Rhodesia from 11 November, 1965 to 1 June, 1979, when Rhodesia was white minority rule.
	Iberian Peninsula The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe. It is the western and southernmost of the three southern European peninsulas . It is bordered on the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea, and on the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean. The Pyrenees form the northeast edge of the peninsula, connecting it to the rest of Europe.
	Iberians The Iberians were an ancient, Pre-Indo-European people who inhabited the east and southeast of the Iberian Peninsula in prehistoric and historic times. There are two theories concerning their origins: * One theory suggests that they arrived in Spain sometime in the third millennium BC, although their arrival has been dated as early as 4000 BC.
	Iberis Iberis is a genus of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It comprises herbs and subshrubs of the Old World. These species are commonly known as candytufts.
	Ibex An ibex, also called steinbock, is a type of wild mountain goat with large recurved horns that are transversely ridged in front. Ibex are found in Eurasia and North Africa. The name ibex comes from Latin, borrowed from Iberian or Aquitanian, akin to Old Spanish bezerro "bull", modern Spanish becerro "yearling".
	Ibis Ibises are a group of long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae. They all have long downcurved bills, and usually feed as a group, probing mud for food items, usually crustaceans. Most species nest in trees, often with spoonbills or herons. According to folklore, the ibis is the last form of wildlife to take shelter prior to a hurricane and the first to reappear after the storm passes.
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	Ibuprofen Ibuprofen is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug widely marketed under various trademarks including Act-3, Advil, Brufen, Motrin, Nuprin, and Nurofen. It is used for relief of symptoms of arthritis, primary dysmenorrhoea, fever, and as an analgesic, especially where there is an inflamation component.
	Ice Ice is an Oxide class mineral that is referred to by any one of the 14 known solid phases of matter of water . However, in non-scientific contexts, it usually describes ice Ih, which is the most abundant of these phases in Earth biosphere.
	Ice age An ice age is a period of long-term downturn in the temperature of Earth's climate, resulting in an expansion of the continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and mountain glaciers . Glaciology, ice age is often used to mean a period of ice sheets in the northern and southern hemispheres; by this definition we are still in an ice age .
	Ice axe An ice axe is a versatile mountaineering tool that practically every mountaineer will carry. An ice axe consists of six components: *pick — a hooked or curved end of the head that draws to a point set with teeth. The hooked design allows the axe to dig in faster when trying to self-arrest.
	Ice cream Ice cream is a frozen dessert made from dairy products such as cream , combined with flavorings and sweeteners such as sugar. This mixture is cooled while stirring to prevent large ice crystals from forming. Although the term "ice cream" is sometimes used to mean frozen desserts and snacks in general, it is usually reserved for frozen desserts and snacks made with a high percentage of milk fat.
	Ice Cube Ice Cube is an United States rapping, actor and film director. He began his career as a founding member of the controversial and famous rap group N.W.A. and later launched a successful solo career in music and Film. In more recent years, Cube has focused more on acting, and is spending less time rapping.
	Ice cube ---- Ice cubes are a small, roughly Cube-shaped piece of ice, conventionally used to cool beverages. Ice cubes are often preferred over crushed ice because they melt more slowly; they are standard in mixed drinks that call for ice, in which case the drink is said to be "on the rocks."
	Ice hockey Ice hockey, referred to simply as hockey in Canada and the United States, is a team sport played on ice. The most prominent ice hockey nations are Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and the United States. While there are 64 total members of the International Ice Hockey Federation, those seven nations have dominated ice hockey.
	Ice pack An ice pack is a plastic sac of refrigerant gel or liquid. This liquid, usually toxicity, can absorb a lot of heat, since its specific heat is very high. Water also has this property, but it expands too much when frozen. It is commonly used to alleviate the pain of minor injuries.
	Ice Plant The common name Ice Plant refers to Carpobrotus edulis, a creeping, mat-forming succulent species, and member of the Stone Plant family Aizoaceae, one of about 30 species in the genus Carpobrotus. It is also known as the Highway Ice Plant, Pigface or Hottentot Fig and in South Africa as the Sour Fig, on account of its edible fruit.
	Ice rink An ice rink is a frozen body of water where people can ice skate or play winter sports. Some of its uses include a playing ice hockey, figure skating exhibitions and contests, and ice shows. Many ice rinks consist of, or are found on, open bodies of water such as lakes, ponds, canals, and sometimes rivers; these can only be used in the winter in climates where the surface would freeze to a strong enough thickness.
	Ice shelf An ice shelf is a thick, floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface. Ice shelves are found in Antarctica, Greenland and Canada only. The boundary between floating ice shelf and the grounded ice that feeds it is called the grounding line.
	Ice skate Ice skates are boots with blades attached to the bottom, used in ice skating to propel oneself across ice surfaces. There are four main types of ice skates: *Figure skates are used in the sport of figure skating. They have toe picks on the front of the blade, which are used for jumping.
	Ice skating Ice skating is traveling on ice with ice skate, narrow blade-like devices moulded into special boots . It is mainly done for recreation and as a sport. It is possible on canals and lakes, etc. after it has been freezing for some time, and at indoor and outdoor skating tracks and areas with artificial cooling.
	Iceberg An iceberg is a large piece of ice that has broken off from a snow-formed glacier or ice shelf and is floating in open water. Since the density of pure water ice is ca. 920 kg/m3, and that of sea water ca. 1025 kg/m3, typically, around 90% of the volume of an iceberg is under water, and that portion's shape can be difficult to surmise from looking at what is visible above the surface.
	Icebound Icebound is a novel written by the best-selling author Dean Koontz. The book was originally published in 1976 under the title 'Prison of Ice', and was revised and re-released as Icebound in 1995.
	Icebox An Icebox was the common appliance for providing refrigeration in the home before safe refrigerants made compact mechanical refrigerators useful. Commonly iceboxes were made of wood, most probably for ease of construction, insulation, and aesthetics: many were handsome pieces of furniture.
	Icebreaker An icebreaker is a special purpose ship designed to move and navigate through ice-covered marine environments. For a ship to be considered an icebreaker it requires three components: an ice strengthened hull, an ice clearing shape, and the power to push through. An ordinary ship with no strengthening will not risk touching ice at all, no matter how gently.
	Iced coffee Iced coffee as sold in the United States is a cold variant of the normally hot beverage, coffee.
	Iced tea Iced tea is a form of cold tea, often served in a glass over ice cubes. Any variety of dry tea may be iced, according to one's tastes. All one has to do is brew the tea and then chill it, or purchase a pre-bottled or -canned tea. It is often helpful to allow iced tea to cool to room temperature before refrigerating it to prevent the formation of condensates, which may give the tea a cloudy appearance, and a chalky taste.
	Icefall An icefall is a portion of some glaciers characterized by rapid flow and a chaotic crevassed surface. Perhaps the most conspicuous consequence of glacier flow, icefalls occur where the glacier bed steepens and/or narrows. The term icefall is formed by analogy with the word waterfall, a similar, but much higher speed, flow phenomenon.
	Iceland Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland is a volcanic island nation in the northern Atlantic Ocean between Greenland, Norway, Scotland, Ireland and the Faroe Islands.
	Iceland moss Iceland moss is a lichen whose erect or ascending foliaceous habit gives it something of the appearance of a moss, whence probably the name. It is often of a pale chestnut color, but varies considerably, being sometimes almost entirely greyish white; and grows to a height of from 3 to 4 in., the branches being channelled or rolled into tubes, which terminate in flattened lobes with fringed edges.
	Iceland poppy The Iceland Poppy is a boreal flowering plant. Native to northern Europe and North America, Iceland poppy are tender perennials that yield large, papery flowers supported by curved stems among feathery foliage. Cultivars come in shades of yellow, orange, salmon, rose, pink, cream and white as well as bi-colored varieties.
	Icepick An icepick is a tool used to pick or chip at ice. It resembles a scratch awl, but is made for picking at ice rather than wood. Before the invention of modern refrigerators, ice picks were a ubiquitous household tool used for separating and shaping blocks of ice used in ice boxes.
	Ichneumonidae Ichneumonidae is a family within the insect Order Hymenoptera. Insects in this family are commonly called ichneumon flies, ichneumon wasps, or simply ichneumons. Ichneumon wasps are important parasitoids of other insects. Common hosts are larvae and pupae of Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, and Lepidoptera.
	Ichthyology Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish. This includes skeletal fish , cartilaginous fish , and jawless fish . Since fish have undergone millennia of evolution and that there are more species of fish as all other vertebrates combined, there is a bewildering variety.
	Ichthyosaur Ichthyosaurs were giant marine reptiles that resembled fish and dolphins. They lived during a large part of the Mesozoic era and appeared about 250 million years ago, slightly earlier than the dinosaurs; and disappeared about 90 Mya, about 25 million years before the dinosaurs became extinct.
	Icon An icon is an image, picture, or representation; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it, or by analogy, as in semiotics; in computers an Icon is a symbol on the monitor used to signify a command; by extension, icon is also used, particularly in modern popular culture, in the general sense of symbol — i.e.
	Iconoclasm Iconoclasm is the destruction of religion icons and other symbols or monuments, usually for religious or political motives. In Christian circles, iconoclasm has generally been motivated by a literal interpretation of the Ten Commandments, which forbid the making and worshipping of "graven images".
	Iconography Iconography usually refers to the design or creation of images and more specifically to the historical study of art which aims at the identification, description and the interpretation of the content of images. The word iconography literally means "image writing", and comes from the Ancient Greek e???? and ??afe??.
	Icosahedron An icosahedron noun is a polyhedron having 20 faces, but usually a regular icosahedron is meant, which has faces which are equilateral triangle s. [Etymology: 16th Century: from Greek eikosaedron, from eikosi twenty + -edron -hedron], "icosa'hedral adjective
	Ictiobus Ictiobus is a genus of freshwater fishes known as buffaloes. Species There are five species of buffalo: * Smallmouth buffalo, * Bigmouth buffalo, * Fleshylip buffalo, * Usumacinta buffalo, * Black buffalo, References*
	Ida M. Tarbell Ida Minerva Tarbell was an author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading "muckrakers". Her famous expos of the nefarious business practices of the Standard Oil Company established her as a pioneer of investigative journalism. Her book, The History of the Standard Oil Company, is considered one of the 100 most important works in the United States in the 20th century.
	Idaho Idaho is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The state's capital and largest city is Boise, Idaho. Residents are called "Idahoans." Idaho was admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, as the 43rd state. According to the United States Census Bureau in 2004 Idaho had an estimated population of 1,393,262.
	IDEAL iDEAL is an Internet payment method in The Netherlands, based on online banking. Introduced in 2005, this payment method allows customers to buy securely on the Internet using direct online transfers from their bank account. The participating banks in iDEAL are: Rabobank, ABN AMRO, Postbank and ING Bank, together serving the vast majority of the Dutch online banking market.
	Idiot light The term idiot light refers to a simplistic method of displaying information about a system. Usually found in display panels, such as an automobile dashboard, they consist of an illumination source with an explanatory symbol or textual label. The usual method of operation is that the light is lit when the condition indicated comes into an effect.
	Iditarod Trail Iditarod Trail is the name of several trails in the U.S. state of Alaska.
	IDLE IDLE is an out-of-print demo album recorded in 2000 by Daylight Dies.
	Ido Ido , a constructed language, was created to become a universal second language for speakers of different linguistic backgrounds, easier to learn than any ethnic language. This intended usage parallels the current use of English language as a lingua franca, and of French language, Latin, and Koine_Greek in earlier eras.
	Idolatry Idolatry is a major sin in the Abrahamic religions regarding image. In Judaism and Christianity it is defined as worship of an = Etymology The word idolatry comes from the Greek language word eidololatria, a compound of eidolon, "image" or "figure", and latreia, "worship".
	Idyll An idyll or idyl is a short poem, descriptive of rustic life, written in the style of Theocritus's short pastoral poems, the Idylls. Later imitators included the Roman poets Virgil and Catullus, Italian poet Leopardi, and the English poet Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson.
	Igloo An igloo, translated sometimes as snowhouse, is a shelter constructed from blocks of snow, generally in the form of a dome. Although igloos are commonly associated with all Inuit, they were predominantly constructed by people of Canada's Central Arctic and Greenlands Qaanaaq area.
	Ignatius of Loyola Saint Ignatius of Loyola, also known as Ignacio Lpez de Loyola, was the principal founder and first Superior General of the Society of Jesus of the Society of Jesus, a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church professing direct service to the Pope in terms of mission.
	Igneous rock Igneous rocks are formed when molten rock cools and solidifies, with or without crystallization, either below the surface as Intrusion rocks or on the surface as extrusive rocks. This magma can be derived from partial melts of pre-existing rocks in either the Earth's mantle or crust.
	Ignition coil An ignition coil is an induction coil in an automobile's ignition system which transformer a Battery's 12 volts to the thousands of volts needed to spark the spark plugs. This specific form of the autotransformer, together with the contact breaker, converts low voltage from a battery into the high voltage required by spark plugs in an internal combustion engine.
	Ignition system The ignition system of an internal-combustion engine is an important part of the overall engine system that provides for the timely burning of the fuel mixture within the engine. All conventional petrol engines require an ignition system. The ignition system is usually switched on/off through a Lock switch, operated with a Key#Car key or code patch.
	Ignorance Ignorance 1) is a lack of knowledge. Ignorance is also a "state of being ignorant" or unaware/uninformed. Ex: "In debate class Bill lost the debate because he was ignorant in that subject." In such a case the term is not pejorative, and may even be used as a self–descriptive term, as in "I am ignorant of".
	Igor Sikorsky Category:Aerospace engineers Category:Aviation magnates Category:Aviation pioneers Category:People from Kiev Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States Category:Russian inventors
	Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was a Russia-born composer. Although he composed Primitivism, Neoclassicism and serialism works, he is best known for three compositions from his earlier, Russian period: The Firebird , Petrushka , and The Rite of Spring .
	Igor Tamm Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm was a Soviet Union/Russians physicist.
	Iguania Iguania is the suborder of Squamata that contains the iguanas, anoles, etc.
	Iguanidae Frost et al. redefined this family. The genera belonging to the different Subfamily were assigned to separate Rank. This view is not generally accepted.
	Iguanodon Iguanodon is the name given to a genus of ornithopod dinosaurs, which lived roughly halfway between the early hypsilophodontids and their ultimate culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs. They lived between 120 to 140 million years ago, in the Barremian to Valanginian ages of the Early Cretaceous Period, although one dubious species is from the Late Jurassic.
	Iguazu Falls Iguazu Falls are waterfalls of the Iguazu River located on the border of the Brazilian States of Brazil of Paran and the Argentina Provinces of Argentina of Misiones Province, around the coordinates . The waterfall system consists of about 270 falls, with heights of up to 82 metres , along 2.7 kilometres of the Iguazu River.
	IJssel [River]] IJssel , sometimes called Gelderse IJssel to avoid confusion with its South Holland Hollandse IJssel, is a 120 km long branch of the Rhine in the Netherlands provinces of Gelderland and Overijssel. It flows north from the city of Arnhem until it discharges into the IJsselmeer .
	IJsselmeer The IJsselmeer is a shallow lake of some 1250 km in the central Netherlands bordering the Provinces of the Netherlands of Flevoland, North Holland and Friesland, with an average depth of 5 to 6 m. It is named after the IJssel river that drains into it via a smaller lake, the Ketelmeer.