Ilmen
formerly Moysk, a lake in the Russian government of Novgorod, 354 square miles. with an area of MENACCANITE, ILMENITE, or FeTiOs or (FeTi)₂O, a mineral found in the Urals, in Norway, France, the Adirondacks, in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Canada. Dark brown to black in color, with a semi-metallic luster, and a lustrous conchoidal fracture. Occurs in isolated grains in basic igneous rocks, and as deposits in the beds of streams. Contains approximately 37 per cent. iron and 32 per cent. titanium.
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Ilocano
the designation given to the inhabitants of Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, and the Union districts of Luzon, Philippines. They are nearly all Christians, and while they have retained many of the elements of their old pagan culture, they became habituated at an early date to the civilization which the Spanish invaders brought with them. They are skillful in agriculture, and produce rice, cotton, chocolate, corn, tobacco and sugar, and their industries include mining, cloth weaving, and stock raising. Their contiguity to the coast has given them a facility in commerce much superior to that noted in the interior races. They appear to be kindred to the less advanced people called Tinguian, resembling them both in speech and physique. Their number is about 850,000.
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Iloilo
the capital of the island of Panay in the Philippine group, and second on only in importance to Manila, from which it is 350 miles distant. Early in 1899 it was taken possession of by the insurgents. After the treaty of peace between Spain and the United States was ratified, Feb. 6, 1899, General Miller was instructed by General Otis to communicate with the rebel governor and make conditions of surrender. This was done Feb. 11, and the insurgents were given till the evening of that day to evacuate the city. Their only reply was to fire upon the gunboat "Petrel," conveying General Miller. The "Petrel" her consort, the "Baltimore," then bombarded the town and in a few hours the insurgents set fire to the place and fled. Iloilo has a fine harbor, and is surrounded by extensive sugar plantations. Pop. about 50,000.
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Ilongot
a designation given to a primitive people kindred to the Malayans, who dwell in the valley of the Cagayan river, in northern Luzon, Philippine Islands. They show a negroid strain and keep themselves in the mountainous interior, living largely in solitary and scattered huts, with even few villages among them. They are the least civilized and least known of the Philippine tribes, are much given to war and head hunting, and life is maintained by such simple occupations as the cultivation of rice, and potatoes, hunting and fishing. millet The tribe numbers about 3,000.
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Ilori
or ILLORIN, capital of a Yoruba state in western Africa, and a great commercial center. The people, about 70,000 in number, consist of Yorubas, Haussa, Fulah, and others, and make cloth, arms, and leather. The state is now practically a province of 4 Sokoto; and is within the territory of the British Royal Niger Company. The religion is Mohammedanism, with strong traces of heathenism. See NIGERIA.
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Imabenzile
Chemistry, C14H11NO, a white, crystalline, inodorous powder, obtained, together with benzilam and benzilimide, by the action of dry ammoniacal gas on benzile dissolved in hot absolute alcohol. It is insoluble in water, in boiling alcohol, and in ether, but di ether, but dissolves readily in an alcoholic solution of potash. The crystals melt at 140°, but on cooling they solidify without recrystallizing.
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Imaginary Expression
or QUANTITY, an algebraic expression or symbol having no assignable arithmetical or numerical meaning or interpretation; the even root of a negative quantity.
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Imagination
a term used in various significations. Addison says that "the pleasures of imagination are such as arise from visible objects, since it is the sense of sight that furnishes the imagination with its ideas." Others, however, employ the word in a much wider signification: some, as synonymous with fancy; others, as denoting generally the faculty of the human mind by which thoughts or ideas are produced at will. Philosophers have divided imagination into two kinds-the reproductive and the productive. By the former, they mean imagination considered simply as re-exhibiting or representing the objects presented by perception, that is, exhibiting them without addition or retrenchment, or any change in the relations which they reciprocally held when first made known to us through sense. The is ductive or creative imagination that which is usually signified by the term imagination or fancy in ordinary language. There are different kinds of imagination, as there are different kinds activity. There is the of intellectual imagination of abstraction, the imaginaof judgment tion of wit, the imagination , the imagination of reason, the imagination of feeling, and the imagination of the passions.
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Imaus
a name applied by the ancients sometimes to the Hindu Kush and the W. part of the Himalayan range, and sometimes in a vague way to a range in Central Asia (supposed to be the Altaian Mountains), which they believed to divide the vast region to which they gave the name of Scythia, into two parts.
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Imbecility
the quality or state of being imbecile; weakness, mentally or physically.
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Imbert
DE SAINT-AMAND, AR- THUR (ang-bar' duh sangt-ä-mäng), a French biographer and historian; born in Paris, Nov. 22, 1834. His career was a diplomatic and official one till he began a study of the lives of the women of the First Empire old French courts, of the , and of the Restoration. His "Women of Versailles" and "Women of the Tuileries" are fine examples of realistic biography. His studies of the Napoleonic royalties sustain the reputation established by the earlier works. He died in 1900.
BARTHELEMI (ang-bar'), French poet; born in Nîmes, in "The a 1747. He attained celebrity with Judgment of Paris," a specimen of deliand musical versification. cately wrought of Fables." He He also wrote a "Book died Aug. 23, 1790.
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Imbros
an island of the Ægean Sea; about 14 miles N. E. of Lemnos and the same distance W. of the mouth of the Dardanelles; area 98 square miles. The island is mountainous, its highest summit attaining 1,959 feet above sea-level. Goats and bees are kept. The inhabitants cultivate the soil and carry on fishing. The chief village, Kastron, is on the N. coast, and occupies the site of the ancient town of Imbros. It is the seat of a metropolitan of the Greek Church. During the World War Imbros was one of the Turkish islands in the archipelago seized by Greece. Most of these Greece has kept, but by a decision of the Supreme Council Imbros is to be handed back to Turkey.
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