Istria
an Austrian margraviate until 1918-now a part of Italy, 210 ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE forming a peninsula in the N. E. corner of the Adriatic Sea, between the Gulf of Trieste and the Gulf of Fiume or Quarnero. Though a mountainous land, often swept by the sirocco and bora winds, it yields excellent olive oil and wine. Area, with the adjacent islands, 1,812 square miles; pop. about 400,000. Capital, Rovigno. After the collapse of Austria in the World War in 1918, Allied forces occupied Pola, the naval base on the peninsula.
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Isvolsky
ALEXANDER PETRO- VITCH, a Russian statesman; born in Moscow, 1856. Having finished his education, at the age of twenty-two, he at once entered the diplomatic service and was sent to Rome, with the result that a Russian legation was established in the Vatican. Was appointed ambassador to Japan, in 1900, and to Denmark in 1902. Became Foreign Minister in 1906, and in 1910 went to France as ambassador, where he remained till after the Revolution of 1917, when he resigned.
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Itacolumite
a schistose quartzite, containing scales of mica, talc, and chlorite, which are often so arranged as to give a certain flexibility to the rock (flexible sandstone). In Brazil and the S. E. States of North America itacolumite is the matrix in which diamonds are found.
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Itasca
i-tas'ka, a small lake in northern Minnesota. It is the source of the Mississippi. It was discovered by H. R. Schoolcraft and the Reverend W. T. Boutwell in 1832. The latter states that they coined the name from "Veritas caput," bad Latin for "the true head." By cutting off the first syllable and the last, a word was left having an Indian sound. The lake occupies a heart-shaped depression in the glacial drift which covers the country. Its area is only 1,130 acres. The river is about twenty feet wide and a foot deep, as it issues from the northern point. The southern end of the lake divides into two arms. A number of brooks and springs keep the water at a permanent stage. The surrounding bluffs are perhaps from twenty to 100 feet in height. The region is covered with tamarack swamps, hazel brush, and poplar and pine forests. Minnesota has set aside thirty-five square miles as a state park. A hotel has been built for the entertainment of tourists. A canoe trip from Lake Itasca down the river is quite practicable. The lake is from four to sixty feet deep. Schoolcraft Island of a few acres occupies the center. See Mississippi River
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Itasca Lake
in Beltrami and Cass counties, Minn.; first seen by William Morrison, a fur trader, in 1804; was explored by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft in 1832. It is the first considerable gathering of the furthermost streams which form the Mississippi, one of these being in volume entitled to be called the young Mississippi; the lake therefore is justly considered the source of the great river. The so-called "Glazier Lake" of some maps is merely an old bay of it partially settled up, and the claim of William Glazier to have discovered the "true source" has no foundation.
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Itch
a popular name for scabies; a disease arising from the irritation produced by the presence in the parts affected of the itch mite and its ova. The animal burrows chiefly between the fingers, on the front of the forearm, on the abdomen, and the inside of the thighs. The disease chiefly assails uncleanly people. It is very common among the natives of India and other Orientals.
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Ithaca
a city and county-seat of Tompkins co., N. Y.; on both sides of Cayuga Lake, and on the Lackawanna, the Lehigh Valley, and the Central New York Southern railroads, and the State Barge Canal; 70 miles S. E. of Rochester. It derives water power from Fall creek; has a number of beautiful cascades in its vicinity; and manufactories of glass, typewriters, drop forgings, calendar clocks, firearms, salt, and other commodities. The cit city is best known as LL UNIVERSITY (q. v.) v.) the seat of CORNELL and the Cascadilla Preparatory School; and also as a po popular summer resort. There are National banks, trolley connection with East Ithaca, large farming trade with Tompkins, Tioga, Cortland, and Seneca counties. Pop. (1909) 14, 802; (1920) 17,204.
now THIAKI, one of the Ionian Islands, on the W. of Greece, between the mainland and Cephalonia, 17 miles long, and not above 4 broad. It is rugged and uneven, and divided into two nearly equal parts connected by a narrow isthmus. The inhabitants are industrious agriculturists and mariners, and build and fit out a considerable number of vessels. They seem to be of pure Greek race, and the women are famed for their beauty. Ithaca was the royal seat of Ulysses, and is minutely described in the Odyssey. Schliemann made important excavations, and identified several sites mentioned by Homer. Vathi, the modern capital, trades largely in oil, wine, raisins, and currants. Pop. of Island, 12,000.
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Ithamar
the fourth son of Aaron, consecrated to the priesthood. His posterity took charge of the tabernacle in the wilderness. Some of this line, namely, Eli, Ahitub, Ahiah, Ahimelech, and Abiathar, held the office of high priest, but under Solomon it reverted to the family of Eleazar.
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Ithome
a mountain of Greece, in Messenia, 25 miles N. W. of Kalamata, 3,865 feet high. On its S. slope are the remains of a village, which in ancient Greece was the stronghold of the Messenians against the Lacedemonians. The first Messenian war ended with the fall of Ithome, 724 b. c.
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Ithonus
in classic Greek fable, the son of Deucalion and King of Thessaly, reported to have discovered the fusion of metals, and the art of coining money.
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Iturbide
AUGUSTIN DE (ē-tör'be-dā), a Mexican soldier; born in Valadolid, Mexico, in 1783. On the breaki_g out of the revolutionary troubles in ed the royalist party and Mexico, he joined displayed such valor and ability that in 1815 he rose to the chief command of the army, but latterly went over to the other side, quickly bore down all opposition, and became so popular that he proclaimed himself Emperor of Mexico in 1822. His reign was full of trouble, and came to an end in less than a year, by his abdication. Congress granted him a yearly pension on condition of his leaving the country, and he resided in Leghorn about a year, when he made an attempt to recover the crown. He landed with but a single attendant, and was arrested and shot, in Padilla, July 19, 1824. His grandson his heir by the unfortunate Emperor was adopted as Maximilian.
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