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Iolanda Balaş Iolanda Balaş or Balázs Jolán (born December 12, 1936 in Timişoara) is a Romanian former athlete of ethnic Hungarian origin and an Olympic champion in high-jump, considered one of the greatest high jumpers ever.
Iolanta Iolanta (sometimes called Iolanthe in English) is a lyric opera in one act by Pyotr Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, based the Danish play Kong Renés Datter (King René’s Daughter) by Henrik Hertz. The play was translated by Fyodor Miller and adapted by Vladimir Rafailovich Zotov.
Iolaus In Greek mythology, Iolaus (Greek: ΄Ιόλαος) was a Theban divine hero, son of Iphicles and thus a nephew of Heracles. He often acted as Heracles' charioteer and companion, and was thought to have been Heracles' eromenos (beloved), thus functioning as the Theban patron hero of pederasty.
Iolcos Iolcos (also known as Iolkos or Iolcus, Greek: Ιωλκός) was an ancient city in Thessaly, central-eastern Greece (near the modern city of Volos). Today Iolcos is a small village, which has a school and a small square (plateia).
Iollas Iollas (in Greek Ioλλας or Ioλας; lived 4th century BC), son of Antipater, and brother of Cassander, king of Macedon. He was one of the royal youths who, according to the Macedonian custom, held offices about the king's person, and was cup-bearer to Alexander the Great at the period of his last illness (323 BC).
Iolo Morganwg Iolo Morganwg (or Morgannwg in modern spelling; pronounced ) was the bardic name of Edward Williams (Llancarfan, Glamorgan, Wales 1747-1826), an influential antiquarian, poet, collector and literary forger. The name is Welsh for "Ned of Glamorgan".
Iometer Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems. Created by Intel Corporation and subsequently handed to the Open Source Development Lab, it is used as a benchmark and troubleshooting tool and is easily configured to replicate the behaviour of many popular applications.
Ion An ion is an atom or group of atoms that normally are electrically neutral and achieve their status as an ion by loss or addition of one or more electrons. The simplest ions are the proton (a hydrogen ion, H+, positive charge), and alpha particle (helium ion, He2+, consisting of two protons and two neutrons) .
Ion (dialogue) In Plato's Ion Socrates discusses with the title character the question of whether the rhapsode, a professional performer of poetry, gives his performance on account of his skill and knowledge or by virtue of divine possession.
Ion acoustic wave An ion acoustic wave is a longitudinal oscillation of the ions (and the electrons) in an unmagnetized plasma or in a magnetized plasma parallel to the magnetic field. The waves are dispersionless with a speed given by
Ion Alecsandrescu Ion Alecsandrescu (born July 17, 1928 - died June 21, 2000) was the chairman of Steaua Bucharest during the team's golden era, between 1985 and 1989. His nickname was Sfinxul (English: The Sphinx) and was recently declared as Steaua Bucharest's Man of the Century.
Ion Alexe Ion Alexe (born July 25, 1946) is a former heavyweight boxer from Romania, who won the silver medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. In the final he was defeated by Cuba's legendary TeĂłfilo Stevenson by walk-over.
Ion Ansotegui Gorostola Ion Ansotegui Gorostola aka Ansotegui (born 10 August 1982 in Berriatua, Basque Country) is Spanish football player who currently plays for Real Sociedad of the Spanish La Liga. His usual demarcation is Defender.
Ion Antonescu Ion Victor Antonescu (June 15 1882, Piteşti – June 1 1946, near Jilava) Romanian marshal and dictator, tried for war crimes and executed (1946), was the prime minister and conducător (Leader) of Romania during World War II from September 4, 1940 to August 23, 1944.
Ion Atanasiu Professor Ion Atanasiu was the founder of the Romanian School of Electrochemistry and the first to teach this subject in Romania. He is known as the originator of Cerimetry, an analytical method based on Cerium (IV) as titration reagent.
Ion beam analysis Ion beam analysis is an important family of modern analytical techniques involving the use of MeV ion beams to probe the composition, obtain elemental depth profiles, or determine the depth profile of damage in single crystals. The last conference (Seville, Spain, 2005) was published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods.
Ion beam assisted deposition Ion beam assisted deposition or IBAD (not to be confused with ion beam induced deposition, IBID) is a materials engineering technique which combines ion implantation with simultaneous sputtering or another physical vapor deposition technique. Besides providing independent control of parameters such as ion energy, temperatude an arrival rate of atomic species during deposition, this technique is especially useful to create a gradual transition between the substrate material and the deposited film, and for depositing films with less built-in strain than is possible by other techniques.
Ion beam induced deposition Ion beam induced deposition or IBID is a technique for direct-write (maskless lithography) metallisation of substrates. A precursor gas containing the metal of interest is dissociated by an ion beam, typically in a FIB (focused ion beam) machine, the metal thereby being deposited onto the substrate.
Ion Barbu Ion Barbu (pen name of Dan Barbilian) (18 March 1895, Câmpulung-Muscel - 11 August 1961, Bucharest) was a distinguished Romanian mathematician and poet. As a poet, he is best known for his volume Second Game (Romanian title Joc secund).
Ion Borcea Technical College The "Ion borcea" Technical College is the only highschool in the town of Buhusi, Romania. It has a number of approximately 1500 students, separated into two groups: the Theoretical Section, and the Technological Section.
Ion Davidov Ion Davidov (also known as Pieter Gierek) is a Romanian-born gay porn model who appears in many Eastern European productions, particularly those of Bel Ami. He is best-known for his appearances in Frisky Summer and Lucky Lukas.
Ion exchange Ion exchange is a process in which ions are exchanged between a solution and an ion exchanger, an insoluble solid or gel. Typical ion exchangers are ion exchange resins, zeolite, montmorillonite, clay, and humus.
Ion exchange chromatography Ion-exchange chromatography, or the more general ion chromatography, is a process that allows the separation of ions and polar molecules based on the charge properties of the molecules. It can be used for almost any kind of charged molecule including large proteins, small nucleotides and amino acids, with the experimental solution to be separated collectively known as the analyte.
Ion exchange resin An ion exchange resin is an insoluble matrix (or support structure) normally in the form of small (1-2 mm diameter) beads, usually white or yellowish, fabricated from an organic polymer substrate on the surface of which are sites with easily trapped and released ions in a process called ion exchange. There are multiple different types of ion exchange resin which are fabricated to selectively prefer one or several different types of ions.
Ion Emanuel Florescu Ion Emanuel Florescu (7 August 1819 - 1893) was a Romanian army general who served as Prime Minister of Romania for a short time in a provisional government in 1876 (17 April - 6 May) and then in 1891 (2 March - 29 December).
Ion Ghica Ion Ghica (August 12, 1816—May 7, 1897) was a Romanian revolutionary, mathematician, diplomat and twice Prime Minister of Romania (between 1866 and 1867, and between 1870 and 1871). He was a full member of the Romanian Academy and its president for four times (1876-1882, 1884-1887, 1890-1893 and 1894-1895).
Ion Heliade Rădulescu Ion Heliade Rădulescu (January 6, 1802- April 27, 1872) was a Wallachian Romanian academic, Romantic poet, essayist, memoirist, short story writer, newspaper editor, prolific translator of foreign literature into Romanian, nationalist politician, and teacher at the Saint Sava College in Bucharest. He is considered one of the foremost representatives of Romanian culture during the first half of the 19th century.
Ion channel Ion channels are pore-forming proteins that help to establish and control the small voltage gradient that exists across the plasma membrane of all living cells (see cell potential) by allowing the flow of ions down their electrochemical gradient. They are present in the membranes that surround all biological cells.
Ion implantation Ion implantation is a materials engineering process by which ions of a material can be implanted into another solid, thereby changing the physical properties of the solid. Ion implantation is used in semiconductor device fabrication and in metal finishing, as well as various applications in materials science research.
Ion Ivanovici Ion Ivanovici (alternatively, Iosif Ivanovici, Josef Ivanovici) (1845 - September 28, 1902) was a Romanian composer. He wrote over 350 dance pieces and marches, but today his only work known to the public is "The Waves of the Danube" (Romanian: Valurile Dunării) — listen here — a waltz, which was performed at the 1889 Paris Exposision and took the audience by storm.
Ion Keith Falconer Ion Grant Neville Keith-Falconer (1856-07-05 – 1887-05-11) was a missionary and Arabic scholar, the third son of the 8th Earl of Kintore. After passing through Harrow School and the University of Cambridge, his ardent temperament carried him into successful evangelistic work in London.
Ion Ţiriac Ion Ţiriac (born 9 May 1939 in Braşov) is a Romanian former tennis player and businessman. He is now one of the wealthiest men in Romania according to the 2005 number of Capital Top 300 wealthiest men in Romania where he occupies the top spot.
Ion Ţuculescu Ion Ţuculescu (May 19, 1910 - July 27, 1962), was a Romanian biologist and a physician, better known for his artistic contributions as an expressionist and abstract oil painter. His work became well-known posthumously, when, in the spring of 1965, a major retrospective exhibition revealed him as one of the important post-World War II European modern artists.
Ion mobility spectrometer An ion mobility spectrometer (IMS) is a spectrometer capable of detecting and identifying very low concentrations of chemicals based upon the differential migration of gas phase ions through a homogeneous electric field. IMS devices come in a wide range of sizes (often tailored for a specific application) and are capable of operating under a broad range of conditions.
Ion Moţa Ion Moţa (July 5 1902, Orăştie, Transylvania—January 13 1937, Majadahonda, Spain) was the Romanian ultra-nationalist deputy leader of the Iron Guard, who became a prominent symbol of martyrdom after killed in battle during the Spanish Civil War.
Ion of Chios Ion of Chios was a versatile writer, dramatist, lyric poet and philosopher in Ancient Greece. Of his forty or fifty plays only a few titles and fragments have survived, while of his elegies and dithyrambs nothing has been preserved.
Ion pump (physics) An ion getter pump is a vacuum pump that works by ionizing the residual gases in vacuum so that they can be adsorbed to special material on the walls of the pump, a process known as gettering. Thus, it is very different from a rotary pump or a turbomolecular pump because it does not have any moving parts.
Ion Petrovici Ion Petrovici (1882 - 1972) was a Romanian philosopher, essayist, logician, political scholar, and Minister of Education. He was widely known at home and abroad for his dissertations on logic and metaphysics, and for his publications on the history of philosophy.
Ion Pillat Ion Pillat (March 31 1891, Bucharest - April 17 1945, Bucharest) was a distinguished Romanian poet. As a poet, he is best known for his volume Pe Argeş în sus (Upstream on the Argeş) and Poeme într-un vers (One-line poems).
Ion Popescu-Gopo Ion Popescu-Gopo (May 1, 1923 - November 28, 1989) was a Romanian graphic artist and animator, but also writer, movie director and actor born in Bucharest, Romania. He was a proemient personality in the Romanian cinematography and the founder of the modern Romanian cartoon school.
Ion Roată Ion Roată (1806, Câmpuri, Vrancea County - February 19, 1882, Gura Văii), also known as Moş Ion Roată, was a Romanian peasant, representative in the Moldavian ad hoc Divan and a strong supporter of the Unification of Moldavia and Wallachia and of land reform in the United Principalities.
Ion Sancho (politician) Ion Voltaire Sancho (born December 6, 1950 in New York City) is an elected public official serving Leon County, Florida, USA as Supervisor of Elections. As the family moved around, first to the South and later to the Midwest, Sancho as eldest cared younger siblings.
Ion thruster An ion thruster (or ion drive), one of several types of spacecraft propulsion, uses beams of ions — electrically charged atoms or molecules— for propulsion. The precise method for accelerating the ions may vary, but all designs take advantage of the charge-to-mass ratio of ions to accelerate them to very high velocities using a high electric field.
Ion transporter In biology, an ion transporter, also called an ion pump, is a transmembrane protein that moves ions across a plasma membrane against their concentration gradient. Such ion pumps can use energy from a variety of sources, including ATP or the concentration gradient of another ion (sometimes called an "ion exchanger").
Ion trap An ion trap is a combination of electric or magnetic fields that captures ions in a region of a vacuum system or tube. The two most common types of ion traps are the Penning trap and the Paul trap (quadrupole ion trap).
Ion Vlădoiu Ion Vlădoiu, (born November 5, 1968), is a retired Romanian football player one of the very few who played for the biggest teams of Romania - Steaua Bucharest, Rapid Bucharest, Dinamo Bucharest and Universitatea Craiova
Ion Voicu Ion Voicu (October 8, 1923–February 24, 1997) was a Romanian violinist and orchestral conductor of Roma ethnicity. In 1969 he founded the award-winning Bucharest Chamber Orchestra, which is now conducted by his son Mădălin Voicu.
Iona (band) Iona is the name of a Christian progressive (or cprog) Celtic/pop/rock band from the United Kingdom, which was formed in the late 1980s by lead vocalist Joanne Hogg and multi-instrumentalists David Fitzgerald and Dave Bainbridge.
Iona Campagnolo Iona Campagnolo, PC, CM, OBC (born October 18, 1932) is a Canadian politician, currently the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. As The Queen's Vice-Regal Representative in British Columbia, she is styled Her Honour while in office, and The Honourable for life.
Iona Community The Iona Community, founded in 1938 by the Rev George MacLeod, is an ecumenical Christian community of men and women from different walks of life and different traditions in the Christian church that is committed to seeking new ways of living the gospel of Jesus in today's world.
Iona Institute The Iona Institute is a Irish-based think tank specialising in religion and society. David Quinn (Irish journalist) a well-known journalist and specialist in religious affairs founded the institute and it was launched publicly in early 2007.
Iona Island, British Columbia Iona Island in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada was formerly an island, but is now a peninsula physically connected to Sea Island via a road called Iona Island Causeway. Iona is home to a sewage treatment plant, an animal refuge and a park.
Iona Island, New York Iona Island is a 556-acre bedrock island, part of the Hudson River nature reserve in Stony Point, New York. The island, separated from the Hudson's western shore by mudflats and freshwater tidal marshes, is a National Natural Landmark.
Iona Preparatory School Iona Preparatory School is an all-boys National School of Excellence Catholic high school located in New Rochelle, NY in suburban Westchester County. Named for the Irish island of Iona, the school was founded by the Congregation of Christian Brothers in 1916.
Iona Yakir Iona Emmanuilovich Yakir, (August 3, 1896, Kishinev, Bessarabia, Russian Empire – June 11, 1937, Moscow, Soviet Union), was the Red Army commander and one of the world's major military reformers between World War I and World War II.
Ionad Chaluim Chille Ìle Ionad Chaluim Chille Ìle ('The Islay Columba Centre') is a Gaelic medium college on the shores of Loch Indall on the island of Islay in Scotland. It was founded in 2002 as part of the University of the Highlands and Islands, and is overseen by Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (Skye).
Ionia Ionia (Greek Ιωνία; see also list of traditional Greek place names) was an ancient region of southwestern coastal Anatolia (in present-day Turkey, the region nearest İzmir,) on the Aegean Sea. It comprised a narrow coastal strip from Phocaea in the north near the mouth of the river Hermus (now the Gediz), to Miletus in the south near the mouth of the river Maeander, and included the islands of Chios and Samos.
Ionian Bank The Ionian Bank was a British overseas bank that investors established in 1839 to operate in the Ionian Isles, then a British Protectorate. Thereafter, the bank expanded in Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Ionian gazeta The gazeta (plural gazzeté, Greek γαζετα, plural γαζέταις) was a currency issued in the Ionian Islands in 1801 during the occupation by Russia and the Ottoman Empire. It replaced the Venetian lira at a rate of 1 gazeta = 2 soldi.
Ionian Islands The Ionian Islands (Modern Greek: Ιόνια νησιά, Ionia nisia; Ancient Greek: Ιόνιοι Νήσοι, Ionioi Nesoi) are a group of islands in Greece. They are traditionally called the Seven Islands (in Modern Greek Eptanisa, Επτάνησα), but the group includes many smaller islands as well as the seven principal ones.
Ionian mode The C Ionian mode is a musical mode or diatonic scale. It was part of the music theory of ancient Greece, and was based around the relative natural scale in C (that is, the same as playing all the 'white notes' of a piano from C to C).
Ionian Revolt The Ionian Revolts were triggered by the actions of Aristagoras, the tyrant of the Ionian city of Miletus at the end of the 6th century BC and the beginning of the 5th century BC. They constituted the first major conflict between Greece and Persia.
Ionian Sea The Ionian Sea (Albanian Deti Jon (meaning "Our sea"), Greek Ιόνιο Πέλαγος, Italian Mare Ionio) is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea, south of the Adriatic Sea. It is bounded by southern Italy, including Calabria, Sicily and the Salento peninsula, to the west, by southwestern Albania and a large number of Greek islands, including Corfu, Zante, Kephalonia, Ithaka, and Lefkas to the east.
Ionian School The Ionian School, a type of Greek philosophy centred in Miletus, Ionia in the 6th and 5th centuries BC, is something of a misnomer. Although Ionia was a centre of Western philosophy, the scholars it produced, including Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Anaxagoras, Diogenes Apolloniates, Archelaus, Hippon and Thales, had such diverse viewpoints that it cannot be said to be a specific school of philosophy.
Ionian University The Ionian University is a university located in the city of Corfu, Greece. It was established in 1984 by the Greek government under the Prime Ministership of Andreas Papandreou, in recognition of Corfu's contribution to Education in Greece as the seat of the first University of Greece, the Ionian Academy, that was established in 1824, forty years before the cession of the Ionian islands to Greece and just three years after Greece's Revolution of 1821.
Ionians The Ionians were one of the four main ancient Greek ethno-linguistic groups, linked by their use of the Ionic dialect of the Greek language. The other three groups were the Achaeans, the Dorians and the Aeolians.
Ionic bond Ionic bonds are a type of chemical bond based on electrostatic forces between two oppositely-charged ions. In ionic bond formation, a metal donates an electron, due to a low electronegativity to form a positive ion or cation.
Ionic compound In chemistry, an ionic compound is a chemical compound in which ions are held together in a lattice structure by ionic bonds. The positively charged ion is usually a metal ion and the negatively charged ion is non-metallic element or molecule.
Ionic crystal An ionic crystal is a crystal consisting of ions bound together by their electrostatic attraction. Examples of such crystals are the alkali halides, including potassium fluoride, potassium chloride, potassium bromide, potassium iodide, sodium fluoride, and other combinations of sodium, caesium, rubidium, or lithium ions with fluoride, bromide, chloride or iodide ions.
Ionic order The Ionic order forms one of the three orders or organizational systems of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and the Corinthian. (There are two lesser orders, the stocky Tuscan order and the rich variant of Corinthian, the Composite order, added by 16th century Italian architectural theory and practice.
Ionică Tăutu Ionică Tăutu (usual rendition of Ion Tăutu; 1798—1828) was a Moldavian low-ranking boyar, Enlightenment-inspired pamphleteer, and craftsman ("an engineer by trade", according to Alecu Russo).Russo, VI
Ionikos Ionikos FC is a football (soccer) club that plays in the Super League Greece, Greece's premier football league. It was founded in June of 1965, when Former president Alex Meraklidis merged two regional football clubs: Athletic Union of Nikaia and Aris Piraeus.
Ionisation (Varèse) Ionisation (1929 - 1931) is a musical composition by Edgard Varèse written for thirteen percussionists playing 37 instruments, all but 3 of which are unpitched. The instrumentation notably includes two sirens.
Ionising Radiations Regulations 1999 The Ionising Radiations Regulations 1999 (IRR99) are a statutory instrument which form the main legal requirements for the use and control of ionising radiation in the United Kingdom. The regulations came into force on 1st January 2000, replacing the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1985, and are enforced by the Health and Safety Executive.
Ionization Ionization is the physical process of converting an atom or molecule into an ion by changing the difference between the number of protons and electrons. This process works slightly differently depending on whether an ion with a positive or a negative electric charge is being produced.
Ionization gauge An ionization gauge, or ion gauge, is a vacuum gauge that is used to measure the residual pressure of vacuum in the high vacuum and ultra-high vacuum (UHV) ranges. There are two main types of ionization gauges, called the hot cathode and cold cathode types.
Ionization potential The ionization potential, or ionization energy, of an atom or molecule is the energy required to strip it of an electron. More generally, the nth ionization energy is the energy required to strip it of an nth electron after the first n-1 have already been removed.
Ionized bracelet Ionized bracelets, or ionic bracelets, are a type of metal jewelry purported to affect the chi of its wearer. The Q-Ray and Bio-Ray bracelets are the most well known brands of ionized bracelets, and while they are similar to magnetic or copper bracelets, they are considered separate products.
Ionocraft An ionocraft or ion propelled aircraft otherwise known as a Lifter is an electrohydrodynamic device that produces thrust in air using electrical energy without moving parts. The term "Ionocraft" dates back to the 1960s, an era in which EHD experiments were at their peak.
Ionochromism Ionochromic materials, similar to photochromic, thermochromic and other chromic materials, alter colour in the presence of a factor and reverse back to their initial state when the factor is removed. The factor which causes colour change in ionochromic substances are ions.
Ionomer An ionomer is a polyelectrolyte that comprises copolymers containing both electrically neutral repeating units and a fraction of ionic units (usually no more than 15%). Ionomers have unique physical properties due to ionic interaction in discrete regions of the material.
Ionosonde A ionosonde, or chirpsounder, is a special radar for the examinatation of the ionosphere. An ionosonde is a shortwave transmitter tunable through the whole shortwave range, which transmits on various shortwave frequencies pulses, whose echos are analyzed by the means of radar.
Ionosonde Juliusruh The Ionosonde Juliusruh is a facility of the institute for atmospheric physics near Juliusruh for sounding the ionosphere with radar systems in the short wave range (frequencies between 1 MHz and 30 MHz). The landmark of the station is a 70 metre high grounded free standing steel framework tower, which was built in 1960/61 and which carries a cage aerial for the transmitter of the ionosonde.
Ionospheric absorption Ionospheric absorption (or ISAB) is the scientific name for absorption occurring as a result of the interaction between various types of electromagnetic waves and the free electrons in the ionosphere, which can interfere with radio transmissions.
Ionospheric sounding In telecommunication and radio science, an ionospheric sounding is a technique that provides real-time data on high-frequency ionospheric-dependent radio propagation, using a basic system consisting of a synchronized transmitter and receiver.
IonPanel IonPanel is a website management system, written by David Bell and developed using PHP and powered by both PHP, a programming language, and MySQL, a database management system. IonPanel initially began as a small PHP application designed to store and publish news on a website.
IonSound Project The IonSound Project is a sextet comprised of flutist Peggy Yoo, clarinetist Kathleen Costello, violinist Laura Motchalov, cellist Elisa Kohanski, pianist Rob Frankenberry and percussionist Eliseo Rael. The members represent some of the most in demand young musicians in the Pittsburgh area.
Iontophoresis Iontophoresis is a non-invasive method of propelling high concentrations of a charged substance, normally medication or bioactive-agents, transdermally by repulsive electromotive force using a small electrical charge applied to an iontophoretic chamber containing a similarly charged active agent and its vehicle. To clarify one or two chambers are filled with a solution containing an active ingredient and its solvent, termed the vehicle.
IonuĹŁ Cristian Stancu IonuĹŁ Cristian Stancu (born January 17, 1983) is a Romanian football wingback who currently plays for the Romanian league side Rapid BucureĹźti. Stancu started his career with Universitatea Craiova in 2001, featuring in the first team on occasion, before moving to Rapid in 2004.
Iopidine Iopidine is a medication administered at a concentration of 1% for the prevention and treatment of postsurgical intraocular pressure elevation and 0.5% for short-term adjunctive therapy in patients on maximally tolerated medical therapy who require additional redirection of intraocular pressure.
Ior Bock Ior Bock, born Bror Holger Svedlin (born January 17 1942), claims that his family line (Boxström) has been keepers of an ancient folklore tradition passed down through the generations, that provides insight into the pagan culture of Finland and its history.
Iorek Byrnison Iorek Byrnison is a Panserbjørne (armoured bear) from Philip Pullman's trilogy His Dark Materials. Like all Panserbjørne, Iorek follows a very strict code of contract, and will in no situation betray a promise he has made.
Iorgu Iordan Iorgu Iordan (also known as Jorgu Jordan or Iorgu Jordan; -September 20, 1986) was a Romanian linguist, philologist, diplomat, journalist, and left-wing agrarian, later communist, politician. The author of works on a large variety of topics, most of them dealing with issues of the Romanian language and Romance languages in general, he was elected a full member of the Romanian Academy in 1945.
Iorwerth Drwyndwn Iorwerth ab Owain Gwynedd or Iorwerth Drwyndwn (1145-1174), meaning "the broken-nosed", was a legitimate son of Owain Gwynedd (the king of Gwynedd) and his first wife Gwladys ferch Llywarch. He married Marared ferch Madog.
Iosepa Iosepa was the name of a settlement in Utah's Skull Valley, approximately 50 miles west of Salt Lake City, which was home to many Polynesian members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (often called "Mormons").
Iosif Amusin Iosif Davidovich Amusin (Joseph Amoussine) (; November 29, 1910, Vitebsk–June 12, 1984, Leningrad), Soviet historian, orientalist, hebraist and papyrologyst, was specialist in the history of the Ancient Near East and Qumran studies, Doctor honoris causa of historical sciences (1965). He was twice (in 1928 and 1938) arrested and sentenced for Zionist connections and "anti-Soviet" activity (acquitted posthumously in 1989).
Iosif Constantin Drăgan Iosif Constantin Drăgan (born June 20, 1917) is a Romanian and Italian businessman, writer and historian. In 2005, he was the second wealthiest Romanian, according to the Romanian financial magazine Capital, having a wealth estimated at $850 million.
Iosif Grigulevich Iosif Romualdovich Grigulevich (Иосиф Ромуальдович Григулевич) (May 5 1913 – June 2 1988) was one of the most remarkable Soviet illegal operatives (an agent without diplomatic cover) during the 1930s and 1940s. He took a leading role in assassinating leftists who were not loyal to Joseph Stalin, such as anarchists, real and alleged Trotskyists, etc.
Iosif Shklovsky Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky (Ио́сиф Самуи́лович Шкло́вский) (July 1 1916 – March 3 1985) was a Soviet/Russian astronomer and astrophysicist. His last name is sometimes given as Shklovskii or Shklovskij, and his first name is sometimes given as Josif or Josef.
Iosif Stalin tank The Iosif Stalin tank (or IS tank, named after the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin), was a heavy tank developed by the Soviet Union during World War II. The tanks in the series are also sometimes called JS or ИС tanks.

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