Iglau
the second largest town of Moravia; on the Iglawa river; 123 miles N. N. W. of Vienna. It has some old churches (one founded in 799). Its staple industries have always been the manufacture of cloth and woolen goods; glass and tobacco are also manufactured. It has a large trade in corn, flax, wool, cloth, and timber. Here on July 5, 1436, the Emperor Sigismund signed the Prague Compactata, after which he was accepted as king by the Bohemians. In the Thirty Years' War the town was taken by the Swedes and recaptured by the Imperialists.
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Igloolik
an island near the E. end of the Fury and Hecla Strait in the Arctic Ocean; the place where Parry passed the winter of 1822-1823. -nä'sē-ō), a group of IGNACIO (ig (ig islands of Mexico, in the Gulf of California, off the coast of the State of Sinaloa.
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Ignacio
JOAQUIM JOSÉ, a Brazilian naval officer; born in 1808. He effected a brilliant movement on the Paraguay and won notable victories. He died in 1869.
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Ignatief
NICHOLAS PAVLO- VITCH (if-nät'e-ef), a Russian diplomatist; born in St. Petersburg in 1832. He served in the Crimean War and was made a colonel in 1856. Ambassador to Peking, 1860; minister at Constantinople, 1864, and envoy-extraordinary in 1867- 1878. He was conspicuous in the negotiations before and after the Russo- Turkish War, and was appointed minister of the interior, but was dismissed in 1882. He was later governor-general of Irkutsk. He died in 1908.
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Ignatius Bean
the seeds of the so-called Ignatia amara; but the genus Ignatia is now given up, having been founded on fragments of two different plants not akin to each other. Ignatius beans, called in parts of India papeeta, have been given in cases of cholera. IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA. See LoY- OLA.
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Igneous
in geology, a term applied to all agencies, operations, and results which seem connected with, or to have arisen from, subterranean heat; and igneous rocks include the Volcanic, Trappean, and Granitic series. Geologists use the term igneous as synonymous with Plutonic, pyrogenous, unstratified, and other similar terms.
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Igorot
inhabitant of northern Luzon in the Philippines. The term means "people of the mountain," and the name is derived from the fact that they have been associated from a remote age with the interior districts of Bontoe, Benguet, Lepanto, and Amburayan. Their chief occupation is agriculture, and they live with plants, grass, and large leaves. in houses grouped together and roofed They are skillful in the art of irrigation, and construct reservoirs on the mountain sides, from which they allow the water to by means of drain and flues. flow low While the customs and degree of cultural development are on a level among the different tribes, the Bontoes are rather more warlike than the other groups, and still engage in their ancient practice of head hunting. On the other hand the inhabitants of Benguet, Lepanto, and Amburayan are inclined to peaceful industrial pursuits, and are skilled in mining and metal work. The total number of the Igorot tribes is estimated at about 275,000.
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Iguala
a town in Guerrero, Mexico; pop. about 10,000. It is industrial center. The so-called an "Plan of Iguala" got its designation from this place.
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Iguanodon
an reptile, closely resembling the iguana in in the form of its teeth, whose remains were discovered by Dr. Mantell in the Wealden formation of the S. of England. From its dentition there seems to be no doubt that it was herbivorous. Mantell estimated this animal to have been 70 feet long, but the complete skeleton now set up at Brussels is 23 feet in full length. The iguanodon formed a family of the Dinosaurians, bird-like reptiles with long hind and short forelegs, and three-toed feet.
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Ilaira
Daughter of Leucippus and Philodice, and sister of Phoebe. The two sisters are frequently mentioned by the poets under the name of Leucippidae. Both were carried off by the Dioscuri , and Ilaira became the wife of Castor.
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Ilang-Ilang
a large tree of the order Anonaceæ, cultivated in India and the Philippines, and yielding from its flowers a rich perfume.
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Ilchester
an ancient English village of Somersetshire. Supposed to be the "Ischalis" of Ptolemy, it was the principal station of the Romans in this region. Ilchester is the birthplace of Roger Bacon.
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Ildefonso
SAN, a town of Spain, province of New Castile, on the Cogolludo river, 40 miles from Madrid. The town contains a magnificent palace built by Philip V., also a large plate glass manufactory. ÎLE-DE-FRANCE (ēl"dä-frängs"), one of the old provinces of France, having Paris as its capital, and now mostly comprised in the departments of Seine, Seine-et-Oise, Aisne, Seine-et-Marne, Somme, and Oise. In the middle of the 9th century it was made a dukedom. The 2d duke, Odo, commonly called Count of Paris, was crowned King of France in 888. Another, Hugh Capet, founded in 987 the Capetian dynasty. Ile-de-France was formerly the name of Mauritius.
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Iletzk
a town in the Russian government of Orenburg, near the confluence of the Ilek with the Ural. Close by is the richest salt-bed in Russia.
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Ileum
the portion of the small intestines communicating with the larger intestine. It is formed by one of the folds of the peritoneum. Sometimes there is a pouch or diverticulum from the main tube.
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Ileus
or ILIAC PASSION, a severe intestinal disease, characterized by violent griping pain, accompanied with retraction and spasms of the abdominal muscles, costiveness, and vomiting of fæcal matter. Among the most frequent causes of this disease are strangulated hernia, intussusception, or the retention of one part of the bowel within another, between adjacent unnatural adhesions folds of the intestines, inflammation, etc.
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Ilex
a tree often named in the Latin classics, the evergreen oak or holm oak native of most (Quercus ilex). It is a parts of the S. of Europe and of the N. large dimenof Africa, often attaining sions, as it sometimes does when planted in Great Britain. The bark is very astringent, and is employed for tanning countries to which the tree hides in the is indigenous. Its wood is very hard and heavy, tough, durable, and useful, particularly for axles, pulleys, screws, and whatever is to be subjected to much friction. In modern botany ilex is the generic name of the holly.
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