Ironical Ironical is a film arts and culture magazine based in New Zealand. The magazine was Started in early 2005 by designer Marshall Lorenzo, after visiting Wellington and the demise of 'Staple'. Ironical's content is mostly satirical and is all for the love and hate of films. The zines home base is
	Ironing Ironing or smoothing is the work of using a heated tool to remove wrinkles from washing machine clothing. The common tools for this purpose are called "irons", though modern designs are no longer made of iron. Ironing works by loosening the bonds between the long-chain polymer molecules in the fibres of the material.
	Ironweed Ironweed is a 1983 novel by William Kennedy. Part of Kennedy's "Albany Cycle" of novels, Ironweed tells the story of an alcoholic, wandering man and woman during the Great Depression, named Francis Phelan who left his family after accidentally dropping his infant son on his head and killing him while drunk.
	Ironwork Ironwork is any weapon, artwork, utensil or architectural feature made of iron especially used for decoration. There are two main types of ironwork wrought iron and cast iron. While the use of iron dates back as 4000BC, it was the Hittites who first knew how to extract it and develop weapons.
	Ironworker Ironworker also refers to someone who works in an ironworks, builds steel structures or makes products out of iron or steel. See International Association of Bridge, Structural, Ornamental and Reinforcing Iron Workers Ironworker was originally a brand name, but has since become the generic name, for a machine which can shear, notch, and punch holes in steel plate.
	Ironworks An ironworks or iron works is a building or site where iron is smelting and where heavy iron and/or steel products are made. The term is both singular and plural, i.e. the plural of ironworks is ironworks. Ironworks is used as an omnibus term covering works undertaking one or more iron producing processes.
	Irony Irony is a literary or rhetorical device in which there is a gap or incongruity between what a speaker or a writer says, and what is understood. More generally, irony is understood as an aesthetic valuation, which is variously applied to texts, speech, events and even fashion. All the different senses of irony, however, revolve around the notion of incongruity, or a gap between our understanding and what actually happens.
	Iroquoian languages The Iroquoian languages are a Native Americans in the United States language family. The language family includes Mohawk language, Wyandot language and Cherokee language. Every language in this family has at least one nasal consonant vowel phoneme.
	Iroquois The Confederacy is a group of First Nations/Native Americans in the United States.It was made up of these five tribes: the Mohawk nation, the Oneida tribe. the Onondaga , the Cayuga tribe, and the Seneca tribe.
	Irrationality Irrationality is talking or acting without regard of rationality. Usually pejorative, the term is used to describe thinking and actions which are, or appear to be, less useful or logical than the rational alternatives. These actions tend to be regarded as emotion-driven. There is a clear tendency to view our own thoughts, words, and actions as rational and to see those who disagree as irrational.
	Irréversible Irrversible is a film screenwriter, film director, film editor, and cinematographer by Gaspar No. It is considered to be one of the most disturbing and controversy films of 2002, due to its explicit on-camera depiction of rape and murder.
	Irrigation Irrigation is the replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops or plants. In contrast, agriculture that relies only on direct rainfall is sometimes referred to as dryland farming.
	Irtysh Irtysh a river in Central Asia, the chief tributary of the Ob River. Its name means White River. It is actually longer than the Ob to their confluence. Irtysh's main affluent is Tobol River. The Ob-Irtysh form a major basin in Asia, encompassing most of Western Siberia and the Altay Mountains.
	Irving Berlin Irving Berlin , born Israel Isidore Baline , in Tyumen, Russia , was an American composer and lyricist, one of the most prodigious and famous American songwriters in history. Berlin, who was Jewish, was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs.
	Irving Langmuir Irving Langmuir was an United States chemistry and physics. While at General Electric, from 1909-1950, Langmuir advanced several basic fields of physics and chemistry, invented the gas-filled incandescent lamp, the hydrogen welding technique, and was awarded the 1932 Nobel Prize/Chemistry for his work in surface chemistry.
	Irvingia Irvingia is a genus of African and Southeast Asian trees in the family Irvingiaceae, sometimes known by the common names wild mango, African mango, or bush mango. They bear edible mango-like fruits, and are especially valued for their fat- and protein-rich nuts, known as ogbono, etima, odika, or dika nuts.
	Isaac Isaac or Yitzchak is the son and heir of Abraham and the father of Jacob and Esau as described in the Hebrew Bible. His story is told in the Book of Genesis.
	Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov, Ph.D. , International Phonetic Alphabet: , originally ????? ?????? but now transcribed into Russian language as ????? ??????) was a Russian-born United States author and biochemistry, a highly successful and exceptionally prolific writer best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books.
	Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Nobel Prize in literature-winning Polish born United States writer of both short stories and novels.
	Isaac Hull Isaac Hull, was a Commodore, in the United States Navy. Hull was born in Derby, Connecticut. Early in life he joined his mariner father, Joseph, on local voyages and longer trips to the West Indies. After his father died while still young, Isaac was adopted by his uncle William Hull, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War.
	Isaac Newton Sir Isaac Newton, Royal Society [Old Style and New Style dates
	Isaac Watts Isaac Watts is recognised as the "Father of English Hymnody", as he was the first prolific and popular English hymnwriter, credited with some 750 hymns. Many of his hymns remain in active use today and have been translated into many languages.
	Isabella Stewart Gardner Isabella Stewart Gardner was an influential American art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts whose collection is now housed in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, in Boston, Massachusetts. Isabella Stewart, daughter of David and Adelia Stewart was born in New York, New York.
	Isadora Duncan Isadora Duncan was an United States dancer. Born Dora Angela Duncan in San Francisco, California, she is considered by many to be the Mother of Modern Dance. Although never very popular in the United States, she entertained throughout Europe, and moved to Paris, France in 1900.
	Isaiah Isaiah or Yeshayhu was the son of Amoz, and commonly considered the author of the Book of Isaiah. His ease of access to the king and other leaders , taken with traditional sources which tell us that Isaiah was the cousin of Uzziah and therefore of royal lineage, suggests he was of a family of high rank.
	Isamu Noguchi was a notable 20th century artist and landscape architecture. Isamu Noguchi was born in Los Angeles, California to an American writer, Leonie Gilmour, and a Japanese people poet, Yone Noguchi, on November 17, 1904. In 1906 he moved with his mother to join his father in Japan, where he spent the rest of his childhood.
	Isatis Isatis is the ancient name of Yazd , a city in Iran. Isatis is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, native to the Mediterranean region east to central Asia. The genus includes woad.
	Ischia Ischia is a volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, at the northern end of the Gulf of Naples. The roughly trapezoidal island lies 17.5 miles from Naples and measures around 10 km East to West and 7 km North to South with a 34 km coastline and a surface area of 46.3 Square kilometer.
	Isère River The Is?re (Isera in Arpitan language and Occitan language) is a 290 km long river in southeastern France, in the Rh?ne-Alpes R?gion in France. Its source is in the Alps on the border with Italy, near the ski resort Val d'Is?re.
	Iseult Iseult is the name of several characters in the Arthurian legend story of Tristan and Iseult. The most prominent is Iseult of Ireland, wife of Mark of Cornwall and adulterous lover of Sir Tristan. Her mother, the Queen of Ireland, is also named Iseult. The third is Iseult of the White Hands, the daughter of Hoel of Brittany, sister of Sir Kahedin, and eventual wife of Tristan.
	Ishmael Ishmael was Abraham's eldest son, born by his wife's handmaiden Hagar. He is first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Genesis as the eldest son of Abraham by Hagar, Sarah's female Ancient Egypt maid-servant or slave. In the Qur'an, Ishmael is considered one of the prophets of Islam of Islam.
	Ishtar Ishtar is the Assyrian counterpart to the Mesopotamian mythology Inanna and to the cognate northwest Semitic goddess Astarte. Anunit, Astarte and Atarsamain are alternative names for Ishtar. Inanna, twin of Utu/Shamash, children of Nanna/Sin, first born on Earth of Enlil.
	ISIS ISIS is an industry standard interface for technologies, developed by Pixel Translations in 1990 .
	Isis Isis is a goddess in Egyptian mythology. She was most prominent mythology as the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, and was worshipped as the archetypical wife and mother. Her name literally means of throne, i.e. Queen of the throne, which was portrayed by the emblem worn on her head, that of a throne.
	Islam Islam is a monotheism religion based upon the Qur'an, which adherents believe was sent by God through Muhammad. Followers of Islam, known as Muslims, believe Muhammad to have been God's final prophet of Islam; most of them see the historic record of the actions and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad related in the Sunnah and Hadith as indispensable tools for interpreting the Qur'an.
	Islamabad Islamabad , is the capital city of Pakistan, and is located in the Potohar Plateau in the northwest of the country. It is located within the Islamabad Capital Territory, though the area has historically been a part of the crossroads of the Punjab region and the North-West Frontier Province .
	Islamophobia Islamophobia is defined as the phenomenon of a prejudice against or demonization of Muslims which manifests itself in general negative attitudes, violence, harassment, discrimination, and stereotyping. The term dates back to the late 1980s or early 90s, although its use has increased since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
	Island An island or isle is any piece of land that is completely surrounded by water. Very small islands are called islets. It is also proper to call an emergent land feature on an atoll an islet, since an atoll is a type of island, although this convention is seldom adhered to.
	Islander The Islander was the 34-foot yawl that Harry Pidgeon sailed around the world single-handed sailing, becoming the second person to do so after Joshua Slocum. The yawl was built along the lines of Seagoer, a V-bottom boat designed by Captain Thomas Fleming Day.
	Islay Islay, a Scotland island, known as "The Queen of the Hebrides", is the southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides. It lies in Argyll just to the west of Jura, Scotland and around 25 miles north of the Ireland coast, which can be seen on a clear day.
	Isle of Man The Isle of Man or Mann , is an island located in the Irish Sea at the geographical centre of Great Britain and Ireland. Although it is not part of the United Kingdom, it is a Crown dependency.
	Isle of Skye The Isle of Skye, usually known simply as Skye , is the largest and most northerly island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. In Scottish Gaelic "sgiath" means "winged". Its name came via Old Norse Ski = "ski" , as an alteration of a Pictish language original which is recorded in Ancient Rome sources as Scitis and Scetis .
	Isle of Wight The Isle of Wight is an England island and county, off the southern English coast, to the south of the county of Hampshire. It is part of the United Kingdom. Popular from Victorian Era as a holiday resort, the Isle of Wight is known for its natural beauty and as home to the Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes, a town that hosts a world famous annual Cowes Week.
	Isles of Scilly The Isles of Scilly form an archipelago of islands off the southwesternmost tip of England. Traditionally part of Cornwall, they now have their own unitary authority. The islands are designated the Isles of Scilly Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Scilly was also the name of one of ten ancient administrative shires of Cornwall - see "Hundreds of Cornwall".
	Islet An islet is a small island. A rock, sometimes a synonym for a type of "islet", is a landform comprised of rock, lying offshore, having no or minimal vegetation, and uninhabited. An exposed bar would be another type of islet. A more technical application is to small land features, isolated by water, lying off the shore of a larger island.
	Islets of Langerhans The endocrine cells of the pancreas are grouped in the islets of Langerhans. Discovered in 1869 by the German pathological anatomist Paul Langerhans, the islets of Langerhans constitute approximately 1 to 2% of the mass of the pancreas. There are about one million islets in a healthy adult human pancreas, which are interspersed evenly throughout the organ, and their combined weight is 1 to 1.5 grams.
	Isocarboxazid Isocarboxazid is a nonselective hydrazine-derived monoamine oxidase inhibitor used in treatment resistant clinical depression.
	Isocyanate Isocyanate is the functional group of atoms –N=C=O , not to be confused with the cyanate functional group which is arranged as –O–C=N. Any organic compound which contains an isocyanate group may also be referred to in brief as an isocyanate. An isocyanate may have more than one isocyanate group.
	Isoflurane Isoflurane-1,1,1-trifluoro-ethane) is a halogenated ether used for inhalation anesthesia. Together with enflurane and halothane, it replaced the flammable Diethyl ether used in the pioneer days of surgery. Its use in human medicine is now starting to decline, being replaced with sevoflurane, desflurane and the intravenous anaesthetic propofol.
	Isoleucine Isoleucine is one of the 20 basic amino acids, and forms part of the structure of almost all proteins. It is coded for in DNA. Its chemical composition is identical to that of leucine, but the arrangement of its atoms is slightly different, resulting in different properties. Nutrition, in humans, isoleucine is an essential amino acid.
	Isomer In chemistry, isomers are molecules with the same chemical formula and often with the same kinds of chemical bond between atoms, but in which the atoms are arranged differently. That is to say, they have different structural formula. Many isomers share similar if not identical properties in most chemical contexts.
	Isomerisation In chemistry, isomerization or isomerisation is the transformation of a molecule into a different isomer. In some molecules and under some conditions, isomerisation occurs spontaneously. Many isomers are equal or roughly equal in bond energy, and so interconvert relatively freely.
	Isoniazid Isoniazid is often abbreviated INH. Isoniazid is a first-line antituberculous medication used in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis. It is available in tablet, syrup, and injectable forms, available world-wide, inexpensive to produce and is generally well tolerated.
	Isopoda Isopods are one of the most diverse orders of crustaceans, with many species living in all environments, and are common in shallow marine waters. Unlike most crustaceans, isopods are successful on land, although their greatest diversity remains in the deep sea. The isopods are an ancient group with fossils known from the Carboniferous that only differ slightly from modern southern hemisphere freshwater phreatoicideans.
	Isopropyl alcohol Isopropyl alcohol is a common name for propan-2-ol, a colorless, flammable chemical compound with a strong odor. It has the chemical formula CH3CHOHCH3, and is the simplest example of a Alcohol#Primary.2C secondary.2C and tertiary alcohols, where the alcohol carbon is attached to two other carbons.
	Isoproterenol Isoproterenol hydrochloride or Isoprenaline is a beta adrenergic receptor agonist medication, used as an inhaled Particulate to treat asthma. Although it activates all beta adrenergic receptors, it works in a similar fashion to the more selective beta2-adrenergic receptor agonists by relaxing the airways to increase airflow.
	Isopyrum Isopyrum is a genus of flowering plants of the family Ranunculaceae native to Eurasia. It is sometimes treated as part of the North American genus Enemion.
	Isoroku Yamamoto was an Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during the first four years of World War II and alumnus of Harvard University . He is considered to be one of Japan's greatest and most influential naval strategists. He died during an inspection tour while en route to the Solomon Islands when his aerial convoy was ambushed by American aircraft.
	Isotherm An isotherm is a line of equal or constant temperature on a graph, plot, or map; an isopleth of temperature. For example, isotherms are commonly seen on weather maps to show large-scale temperature distributions. See also * isothermal process External links
	Isothiocyanate Isothiocyanate is the chemical group -nitrogen=carbon=sulfur, formed by substituting sulfur for oxygen in the isocyanate group. Allyl isothiocyanate is also called mustard oil.
	Israel Israel , officially the State of Israel, is a country in Southwest Asia on the southeastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the Middle East's only Parliamentary system democracy and the Nation-state of the indigenous people of Land of Israel .
	Israelis Israelis are citizens of modern Israel.
	Israelite An Israelite is a member of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, descended from the twelve sons of the Biblical patriarch Jacob who was renamed Israel by God in the book of Genesis, 32:28. The Israelites were a group of Hebrews, as described in the Hebrew Bible. There are modern History debates about the origins of the Hebrews/Israelites.
	Istanbul Istanbul is Turkey's most populous city, and its cultural, and economic centre. The city is the capital of Istanbul Province. It is located at 41 N 28 E, on the Bosphorus strait, and encompasses the natural harbor known as the Golden Horn, in the northwest of the country.
	Isthmus An isthmus is a narrow strip of land that is bordered on two sides by water and connects two larger land masses. It is the inverse of a strait. Isthmuses are a naturally good place to build canals. The Panama Canal, which connects the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Oceans, drastically reduces the naval travel time between the east and west coasts of the Americas.
	Isthmus of Corinth The Isthmus of Corinth is the narrow landbridge which connects the Peloponnesos peninsula with the mainland of Greece, near the city of Corinth, Greece . The word "isthmus" comes from the name "Isthmus of Corinth". To the west of the Isthmus is the Gulf of Corinth, to the east the Saronic Gulf.
	Isthmus of Panama The Isthmus of Panama is the narrow strip of land that lies between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean, linking North America and South America. It was formed some 3 million years ago during the Pliocene epoch. It lies in the nation of Panama, and is cut by the Panama Canal.
	Isthmus of Tehuantepec The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is an isthmus in Mexico. It represents the shortest distance between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean. The name comes from the town of Tehuantepec in the state of Oaxaca, which in turn comes from the Nahuatl language tecuani-tepec.
	Itaconic acid Itaconic acid, or methylenesuccinic acid, is an organic compound that is one of the three acids obtained by the distillation of citric acid. Itaconic acid is a white crystalline powder that is soluble in water, ethanol and acetone. It has the molecular formula C5H6O4 and molecular weight 130.10.
	Italian bee Apis mellifera ligustica is the Italian bee which is a sub-species of the Western honeybee.