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Indian Elephant
The Indian Elephant Elephas maximus indicus is a subspecies of the Asian Elephant primarily found in India. The subspecies can also be found in relatively small numbers in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Laos, mainland of Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand and Vietnam.


Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest body of water in the world, covering about 20% of the Earth's water surface. It is bounded on the north by South Asia; on the west by the Arabian Peninsula and Africa; on the east by the Malay Peninsula, the Sunda Islands, and Australia; and on the south by the Southern Ocean.


Indian Python
The Indian Python or Indian Rock Python is a python found in India, especially in the estuarine mangrove forest, the arid scrub jungle and the cool dense rain forests.


Indian reservation
In the United States, an Indian reservation is land which is managed by a Native Americans of the United States tribe under the United States Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs. Reservations were established when Americans began to forcibly take land from the American Indians, who had lived there for thousands of years.


Indian Rhinoceros
The Indian Rhinoceros or the Great One-horned Rhinoceros, Rhinoceros unicornis, is a large mammal found in Nepal and in Assam, India. It is confined to the tall grasslands and forests in the foothills of the Himalayas. The Indian Rhinoceros is an excellent swimmer.


Indian rupee
The Indian rupee is the official currency of India. The issuance of the currency is controlled by the Reserve Bank of India. The most commonly used symbol for the rupee is Rs, ?, or ??. The ISO 4217 code for the India rupee is INR. In most parts of India, the rupee is known as the rupee, rupaye, rubai, or one of other terms derived from the Sanskrit rupyakam , raupya meaning silver; rupyakam meaning of silver.


Indian summer
Indian summer is a name given to a period of sunny, warm weather in autumn, not long before winter. This time can be in late October or early November / late April or early May, usually sometime after the first frost. It can persist for just a few days or weeks. The dates for Indian summer are very inexact due to the enormous variations in climatic patterns throughout each hemisphere.


Indiana
Indiana, meaning the "Land of the Native Americans in the United States," is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Midwestern United States United States. Residents of Indiana are called Hoosiers. Indiana is 15th in population at nearly 6.3 million, and 38th in size, making it 17th in population density.


Indies
Disambiguation: you may be looking for West Indies or Indie The Indies or East Indies is a term often used to refer to the Malay Archipelago , in contrast to the West Indies, which refers to the Caribbean. In a wider sense, the Indies is also used to describe lands of South Asia and Southeast Asia Asia, occupying all of the former British Raj, the present Indian Union, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and also Thailand


Indigent
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Indigo Bunting
The Indigo Bunting, Passerina cyanea, is a small seed-eating bird in the family Cardinalidae. Adult males have deep blue Feather; the wing and tail are black with blue edges. Adult females are brown: darker on the upperparts, faintly streaked underneath. Their breeding habitat is brushy edges across eastern North America and the southwest United States.


Indigofera
Indigofera is a large genus of about 700 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Fabaceae. They occur throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world, with a few species reaching the temperate zone in eastern Asia. The species are mostly shrubs, though some are herbaceous, and a few can become small trees up to 5-6 m tall; most are dry-season or winter deciduous.


Indigofera tinctoria
Indigofera tinctoria bears the common name true indigo. The plant was one of the original sources of indigo dye. It has been naturalized to tropical and temperate Asia, as well as parts of Africa, but its native habitat is unknown since it has been in cultivation worldwide for many centuries.


Indinavir
Indinavir is a protease inhibitor used as a component of antiretroviral drug to treat HIV infection and AIDS.


Indira Gandhi
Indira Priyadarsini Gandhi was Prime Minister of India from January 19, 1966 to March 24, 1977, and again from January 14, 1980 until her assassination on October 31, 1984. She was India's first and to date only female prime minister. Daughter of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and mother of another, Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi was one of India's most notable and controversial political leaders.


Indiscreet
Indiscreet is a 1958 romantic comedy starring Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant. It is based on the play Kind Sir by Norman Krasna.


Indium
Indium is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol In and atomic number 49. This rare, soft, malleable and easily fusible poor metal, is chemically similar to aluminium or gallium but looks more like zinc . Its current primary application is to form transparent electrodes from Indium tin oxide in liquid crystal displays.


Indo-Aryans
The Indo-Aryans are a wide collection of peoples united by their common status as the ethno-linguistic descendents of the Indo-Aryan languages of the ancient Indo-Iranians. Today, there are close to a billion native speakers of Indo-Aryan languages, almost exclusively indigenous to the region of South Asia, though in ancient times, they could have been found on the eastern part of the Iranian plateau and in areas as far west as modern Syria and Iraq and as far east as modern Cambodia and Viet


Indo-European languages
The Indo-European languages comprise a language family of several hundred languages and dialects , including most of the major languages of Europe, as well as many spoken in Southwest Asia, Central Asia and South Asia. Contemporary languages in this family with List of languages by number of native speakers each include Hindi, Spanish language , English language , Portuguese language , Bengali language


Indo-Iranians
Indo-Iranian peoples consist of the Indo-Aryans, Iranian peoples, Dard people and Nuristani peoples, that is, speakers of Indo-Iranian languages. An archaic term for these peoples is Aryan.


Indochina
Indochina, or the Indochinese Peninsula, is a subregion in Southeast Asia. It lies roughly east of India, south of China, culturally influenced by bothhence the name . Note that the term Sino-Indian is used to describe things relating to India and China.


Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a island nation consisting of 18,110 islands in the South East Asia. The capital is Jakarta, formerly known as Batavia. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic nation, and it is bordered by the nations of Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia.


Indri
The Indri, also called the Entrina, is a large tree-dwelling relative of the lemur and, like all lemuroids, it is native to Madagascar. It has only a rudimentary tail, and large eyes. The long silky coat, except on the bare black face and snout, is particolored. Gestation is 5 months, with the single young usually born in May or June.


Indriidae
The Indriidae are a family of strepsirrhine primates. They are medium to large sized lemurs with only four teeth in the toothcomb instead of the usual six. Indriids, like all lemurs, live exclusively on the island of Madagascar. The ten extant indrid species vary considerably in size.


Inductance
Inductance is a measure of the amount of magnetic flux produced for a given electric current. The term was coined by Oliver Heaviside in February 1886. The SI unit of inductance is the Henry. The symbol L is used for inductance, in honour of the physicist Heinrich Lenz.


Induction heating
Induction heating is the process of heating a metal object by electromagnetic induction, where eddy currents are generated within the metal and resistance leads to Joule heating of the metal. An induction heater consists of an electromagnet, through which a high-frequency Alternating current is passed.


Inductor
An inductor is a Passive component electrical device employed in Electrical network for its property of inductance. An inductor can take many forms.


Indulgence
In Roman Catholicism theology, an indulgence is the remission granted by the Church of the temporal punishment due to sins already forgiven by God.


Indus River
The Indus is the longest and most important river in Pakistan. Originating in the Tibetan plateau in the vicinity of Lake Mansarovar, the river runs a course through Jammu and Kashmir in both India and Northern Areas in Pakistan, and in a southernly direction along the entire length of Pakistan to merge into the Arabian Sea near the city of Karachi.


Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the major technology, socioeconomics and culture change in the late 18th century and early 19th century that began in Great Britain and spread throughout the world. During that time, an Economic system based on manual labour was replaced by one dominated by industry and the manufacturing of machinery.


Industrial Workers of the World
The Industrial Workers of the World is an international trade union currently headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. At its peak in 1923 the organization claimed some 100,000 members in good standing, and could marshal the support of perhaps 300,000 workers.


Industry
An industry is generally any grouping of businesses that share a common method of generating profits, such as the "music industry", the "automobile industry", or the "cattle industry". It is also used specifically to refer to an area of economics production focused on manufacturing which involves large amounts of capital investment before any profit can be realized, also called "heavy industry.".


Inequality
In mathematics, an inequality is a statement about the relative size or order of two objects. *The notation means that a is less than b and *The notation means that a is greater than b. These relations are known as strict inequality; in contrast * means that a is less than or equal to b and


Inertial guidance system
An inertial guidance system consists of an Inertial Measurement Unit combined with a set of guidance algorithms and control mechanisms, allowing the path of a vehicle to be controlled according to the position determined by the inertial navigation system. These systems are also referred to as an inertial platform.


Infant
Infant is a formal term for the word baby, the youngest category of a child. The term "infant" derives from the Latin word in-fans, meaning "unable to speak." There is no exact definition for infancy. Quite often babies are called infants until they reach the age of one.


Infant mortality
Infant mortality is the death of infants in the first year of life. The leading causes of infant mortality are dehydration and disease. Major causes of infant mortality in more developed countries include congenital malformation, infection and Sudden infant death syndrome.


Infantry
Infantry is a term for soldiers who fight primarily on foot with small arms in organized military units. It may also be more broadly assigned as a blanket term for larger military organizational structures consisting of units whose focus is deploying infantrymen but also contain large numbers of soldiers in supporting roles These broad categorizations may also include a defined role related to their equipment or method of transport


Infectious mononucleosis
Infectious mononucleosis is a disease seen most commonly in adolescents and young adults, characterized by fever, sore throat and fatigue. It is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus or the cytomegalovirus. It is typically transmitted from asymptomatic individuals through saliva or blood, or by sharing a drinking glass, infected door handles, eating utensils, needles or being in close proximity of an infected person.


Infidels
Infidels is an album by Bob Dylan, which reunited the artist with Mark Knopfler, who had played on 1979's Slow Train Coming. Infidels was initially considered a reversion from the overtly religious songs found on his previous three albums, but many now view the album as including subtler extensions of his religious themes.


Infiltrator
Infiltrator is a 1986 in video gaming video game video game publisher by U.S. Gold/Mindscape Group. It was video game developer for the Atari 8-bit family, Apple II, DOS, Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System and ZX Spectrum by Chris Gray Enterprises.


Infinity
he word infinity comes from the Latin infinitas or "unboundedness." It refers to several distinct concepts which arise in theology, philosophy, mathematics and everyday life. Popular or colloquial usage of the term often does not accord with its more technical meanings. In Greek philosophy, for example in Anaximander, 'the Boundless' is the origin of all that is.


Infliximab
Infliximab is a powerful drug used to treat auto-immune disorders like Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and rheumatoid arthritis. Infliximab is known as a "chimeric monoclonal antibody". The drug reduces the amount of active tumor necrosis factor in the body by binding to it and preventing it from signaling the receptor for TNF-a on the surface of cell.


Inflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers on a branch of a plant. In botany, the term refers to the way individual flowers are arranged on the axis . An inflorescence is said to be indeterminate growth if the number of flowers may increase after the first flower opens, even while others are opening, and determinate if the number of flowers cannot increase after the first flower opens.


Influenza
Influenza, commonly known as the flu, is an infectious disease that infects birds and mammals and is caused by an RNA virus of the Orthomyxoviridae family . The most common and characteristic symptoms of influenza in humans are fever, pharyngitis , myalgia , severe headache, coughing, and malaise .


Inform
Inform is a programming language and design system for interactive fiction originally created in 1993 by Graham Nelson. Versions 1 through 5 came out relatively quickly between 1993 and 1996. Around 1996, Graham rewrote Inform from first principles to create version 6. Over the following decade, version 6 has become reasonably stable and a popular language for writing interactive fiction.


Information superhighway
The information superhighway is a now obsolete term which was popularized in the early 1990s by the Clinton-Gore administration to describe ways of expanding the internet beyond its then-current state. It is often associated with the United States politician and former Vice President of the United States, Al Gore, though the exact origins of the term are unknown .


Information system
The term information system has the following meanings: 1. An information system consists of three components: human, task, application system. In this view information are defined in the three levels of semiotics. Data which can be automatically processed by the application system correspond to the syntax-level.


Information technology
Information Technology is a broad subject concerned with the use of technology in information processing, especially in large organizations. In particular, IT deals with the use of electronics computers and computer software to convert, store, protect, process, Transmission , and retrieve information.


Information theory
Information theory is a discipline in applied mathematics involving the quantification of data with the goal of enabling as much data as possible to be reliably stored on a medium and/or communicated over a channel. The measure of data, known as information entropy, is usually expressed by the average number of bits needed for storage or communication.


Infrared
Infrared radiation is electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength longer than that of visible light, but shorter than that of radio waves. The name means "below red" , red being the color of visible light of longest wavelength. Infrared radiation spans three orders of magnitude and has wavelengths between approximately 1 E-7 m Nanometre and 1 millimetre.


Inga
This article is about the genus of plant. For other uses, see Inga. Inga is a genus of tropical trees and shrubs, member of the infrafamily Ingeae. Ingas leaves are pinnate, and flowers generally white. Many of the of species are used ornamentally. Crop rotation techniques using species of Inga such as Inga_Edulis have been developed to restore soil fertility, and thereby stem the tide of continual slash and burn of the rainforest.


Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman is a Sweden theater director and film director who is one of the key film auteurs of the second half of the twentieth century.


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Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman was a three-time Academy Awards-winning Sweden Actor. In addition, she won two Emmy Awards and one Tony Awards. She was ranked as the fourth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute .


Inhabitants
Inhabitants is an List of commercially released independently developed Dreamcast games puzzle game created by S+F Software, based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. Inhabitants is available for Microsoft Windows and Sega Dreamcast.


Inhalant
Inhalants are a chemically diverse group of Psychoactive drug substances composed of organic solvents and volatile substances commonly found in more than 1000 common household products, such as adhesives, hair spray, air fresheners, gasoline, Naphtha, and paint.


Inhaler
An inhaler or puffer is a medical device used for delivering medication into the body via the lungs. It is often used in the treatment of asthma. Medication is most commonly stored in solution in a pressurized canister. The canister is attached to a plastic, hand-operated pump. The standard metered dose inhaler on activating releases a fixed dose of medicine in Aerosol spray form.


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Inhumans
The Inhumans are a fictional species of superhumans in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The Inhumans first appeared in Fantastic Four #45, though members Medusa and Gorgon appeared in earlier issues of the series.


Inigo Jones
Inigo Jones is regarded as the first significant English architecture. He also made valuable contributions to stage design. Beyond the fact that he was born in the vicinity of Smithfield, London in central London, the son of a Welsh Catholic clothworker, and christened at the church of St Bartholomew the Less, little is known about Jones' early years.


Initial
In a written work, an initial is a letter at the beginning of a work, a chapter or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text. It is often several lines in height and is sometimes ornately decorated. In the early history of printing the typesetter would leave blank the necessary space, so that the initials could be added later by a scribe.


Initiation
Coming from the Latin, initiation implies a beginning. The related verb, initiate, means to begin or start a particular action, event, circumstance, or happening. An initiation is also a ceremony by which a person is introduced into a society, or other organized body, especially the rite of admission into a secret society or religious order.


Injector
The injector is a pump-like device that charges or discharges containers under pressure with suitable arrangements. It was invented by Henri Giffard in 1858. Motive force is gained at the inlet from a suitable fluid that is under pressure. By contrast, an ejector is a device that discharges fluids from containers, usually into the Earth's atmosphere.


Injuns
Injuns are a band from the Isle of Skye on the west coast of Scotland. Formed in 2003, they learnt their trade in the harsh world of Highland pub entertainment, replacing accordion and fiddle with tight jazz chops, incoherent lyrics, unjustifiable time signatures, and a dancefloor rhythm section.


Ink
An ink is a liquid containing various pigments and/or dyes used for colouring a surface to render an or text. Ink is used for drawing or writing with a pen or brush. Thicker inks, in a paste form, are used extensively in letterpress and lithographic printing.


Ink cartridge
An ink cartridge is a replaceable component of an inkjet printer that contains the ink and sometimes the printhead itself that is spread on paper during printing. Each ink cartridge contains one or more partitioned ink reservoirs, electronic contacts and a chip that communicates with the printer.


Inklings
The Inklings was a literature discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, England. Its members, mostly academics at the university, included J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams , Adam Fox, Hugo Dyson, Robert Havard, Nevill Coghill, Charles Leslie Wrenn, Roger Lancelyn Green, Colin Hardie, James Dundas-Grant, John Wain, R.B. McCallum, Gervase Mathew, C.E. Stevens, J.A.W. Bennett, Lord David Cecil


Inkstand
An inkstand is a stand or tray used to house writing instruments or ink. Inkstands have gone out of use for the most part since the development of ballpoint pen and fountain pens. The most famous inkstand is probably the Syng inkstand, which was used in the signing of the United States Constitution.


Inland Revenue
The Inland Revenue was, until April 2005, a Departments of the United Kingdom Government of the British Government responsible for the collection of direct tax tax, including income tax, national insurance, capital gains tax, Inheritance Tax, United Kingdom corporation tax, petroleum revenue tax and stamp duty.


Inland Sea
Formally named the Seto Inland Sea, the Inland Sea is the body of water separating Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu, three of the main islands of Japan. It serves as an international waterway, connecting the Pacific Ocean to Sea of Japan. It connects to Osaka Bay and provides a sea transport link to industrial centers in the Kansai region, including Osaka and Kobe.


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