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Italian Greyhound
akcgroup = Toy
| akcstd = altname = Piccolo Levriero Italiano, Miniature Greyhound
| ankcgroup = Group 1
| ankcstd = ckcgroup = Group 5 - Toys
| ckcstd = country = Greece, Turkey, Italy
| fcigroup = 10
| fcinum = 200
| fcisection = 3
| fcistd = image = Italian greyhund.jpg
| image_caption = Italian Greyhound
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Italian lira
The lira was the currency of Italy between 1861 and 1999. Between 1999 and 2002, the Italian lira was officially a "national subunit" of the euro. However, physical payments could only be made in lira, as no euro coins and notes were available.
The lira was also the currency of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy between 1807 and 1814.
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Italian Peninsula
The Italian Peninsula or Apennine Peninsula is one of the greatest peninsulas of Europe, spanning 1,000 km from the Alps in the north to the central Mediterranean Sea in the south. The peninsula is well-known for its boot shape, in fact it is known as Lo Stivale
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Italian Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 14th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Although the origins of a movement that was confined largely to the literate culture of intellectual endeavor and patronage can be traced to the earlier part of the 14th century, many aspects of Italian culture and society remained largely Medieval; the Renaissa
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Italic languages
The Italic subfamily is a member of the Centum branch of the Indo-European languages language family. It includes the Romance languages , and a number of extinct languages.
Italic has two known branches:
* Osco-Umbrian languages, including:
** Oscan language, was spoken in the south-central region of the Italian Peninsula
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Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was an Italy writer and novelist. His best known works include If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, Invisible Cities and Cosmicomics.
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Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic , is a Southern European country. It comprises the Po River valley, the Italian Peninsula and the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. It is shaped like a boot and for this reason Italians commonly call it "lo stivale" .
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Itraconazole
Itraconazole is a triazole antifungal agent that is prescribed to patients with fungal infections. The drug may be given orally or intravenously.
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Ivan Lendl
Ivan Lendl is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players professional tennis player. He was one of the game's most dominant players in the 1980s, and remained a top competitor into the early 1990s.
Lendl captured eight Grand Slam singles titles during his career.
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Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russia physiologist, psychologist, and physician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904 for research pertaining to the digestive system. Pavlov is widely known for first describing the phenomenon now known as classical conditioning in his experiments with dogs.
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Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a major Russian novelist and playwright. His novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as a defining work of 19th-century fiction.
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Ivory
Ivory is a hard, white, opaque substance that is the bulk of the teeth and tusks of animals such as the elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, mammoth, narwhal, etc. Prior to the introduction of plastics, it was used for billiards balls, piano keys, bagpipes, buttons and ornamental items.
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Ivory Gull
The Ivory Gull, Pagophila eburnea, is a small gull, the only species in its genus. It breeds in the high arctic and has a circumpolar distribution through Greenland, northernmost North America, and Eurasia.
It bird migration only short distances south in autumn, most of the population wintering in northern latitudes at the edge of the pack ice, although some birds reach more temperate areas.
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Ivory Tower
The term Ivory Tower designates a world or atmosphere where intellectuals engage in pursuits that are disconnected from the practical concerns of everyday life. As such, it has a slightly pejorative connotation, denoting a willful disconnect from the everyday world; esoteric, over-specialized, or even useless research; and academic elitism, if not condescension by those inhabiting the proverbial ivory tower.
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Ivory-billed Woodpecker
The Ivory-billed Woodpecker is a very large and extremely rare or extinct member of the woodpecker Scientific classification, Picidae. It is officially listed as an endangered species, and by the end of the 20th Century had widely been considered Extinction.
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Ivy
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Ivy League
The Ivy League is an athletic conference comprising eight Private university institutions of university located in the Northeastern United States. The term is also used to refer to those eight schools considered as a group. In a wider sense, it is used to refer to the social group once strongly associated with these schools.
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Iwo Jima
For the battle, see Battle of Iwo Jima
Iwo Jima listen is a volcanic island in Japan, part of the Volcano Islands, approximately 650 nautical miles south of Tokyo. It is famous as a site of Battle of Iwo Jima in February and March, 1945, between the United States and Japan during World War II.
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Ixia
The genus Ixia consists of a number of cormous plants native to South Africa. Some of them are known as the corn lily. Some distictive traits include: sword-like leaves, and long wiry stems with star-shaped flowers. It usually prefers well-drained soil.
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Ixobrychus
Ixobrychus is a genus of bitterns, a group of wading bird in the heron family Ardeidae. It has a single represenative species in each of North America, South America, Eurasia and Australasia. The tropical species are largely resident, but the two northern species are partially bird migration, with many birds moving south to warmer areas in winter.
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Izmir
Izmir is the third most populous city of Turkey and the country's largest port after Istanbul. It is located on the Aegean Sea near the Gulf of Izmir. It is the capital of Izmir Province Provinces of Turkey. The city of Izmir is composed of 9 metropolitan districts and the 2000 population of this urban zone was 2,409,000..
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