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I L Patterson was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Oregon from 1927 until 1929.
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Iamblichus was a neo-Platonic philosopher. He was a native of Chalcis in Coele-Syria, and spent his life in Syria, dieing sometime before 333. He was an ardent student of the philosophy of Plato and Pythagoras and was also versed in the lore of the Chaldaeans and Egyptians. His philosophy was a syncretism of Platonic and Pythagorean doctrines, mixed with Oriental mysticism, his cardinal thesis being that communion with the Deity was possible for man by means of theurgic rites, such as initiations and mysteries.
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Ian Fleming was an English novelist. He was born in 1908 at London and died in 1964. After working as foreign correspondent for Reuters in Moscow from 1929 to 1933 he became a banker and stockbroker. During the Second World War he was an intelligence officer, and based upon his experiences he wrote novels about the secret agent 'James Bond', which have been made into a succession of successful action films.
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Iban is a replacement term for Dyak.
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The Ibo are a west African cultural group occupying south east Nigeria and numbering about 18,000,000. Primarily cultivators by tradition, they inhabit the richly forested tableland, bounded by the river Niger to the west and the river Cross to the east. They are divided into five main groups, and their languages belong to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family.
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Ibra C Blackwood was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of South Carolina from 1931 until 1935.
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The Icarians were followers of the 19th-century French social reformer Etienne Cabet, whose book 'Voyage en Icarie' published in 1840 describes his idea of a perfect commonwealth. Influenced by the British social reformer Robert Owen, Cabet wrote that this ideal community would have progressive taxation and compulsory work. Moreover, all property would be held in common, and all products of labour would be distributed according to need. The Icarians tried to put these theories into practice in the USA, making their first effort in 1848, in Fannin County, Texas. When this colony failed, a second one, under Cabet, was founded at Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1849. For a short time, the colony prospered, but because of internal dissension, Cabet was expelled in 1856 and died the same year in Saint Louis. Some of Cabet's followers settled in Cheltenham, Iowa, and this colony lasted until 1864. Other emigrants from Nauvoo established a settlement near Corning, Iowa, in 1860, which, with some interruptions, lasted until 1895. There was another
Icarian community in Cloverdale, California, from 1881 to 1887.
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Ichabod Goodwin was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of New Hampshire from 1859 until 1861.
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An Ichthyotomist is an expert on fish anatomy.
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An iconoclast is someone opposed to idol worship and who destroys the images and idols used in worship. The term is applied to the British Puritans of the 16th and 17th centuries who destroyed statues of saints and other religious icons in the churches.
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Ida was a valiant Saxon king of Northumbria in 547.
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Idi Amin Dada was a Ugandan soldier and dictator. He was born in 1925 at Koboko and died in 2003. A sergeant in the British colonial army in Uganda before staging a military coup in 1971 and taking control of the country from the then left-wing leader, Obote. Western governments welcomed Amin's coup as it removed a potential communist from the country. However, Amin's first action was to execute all the military thought to be loyal to Obote. In order to maintain power - which he did through the public execution of any opposition - Amin required military support. This he at first obtained from Israel, but Israel withdrew after becoming aware of Amin's atrocities. Amin then courted the Arab world, and became an active supporter of the Palestinian terrorists, sending a telegram of support for them following the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympics and inviting an Israeli passenger jet, hijacked by Palestinian terrorists to land at Entebbe airport. His brutal rule which resulted in the deaths of thousands of people ended after his failed invasion of neighbouring
Tanzania resulted in Tanzania invading Uganda and capturing Kampala, the Ugandan capital in 1979. Idi Amin escaped to exile in the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca where he died.
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The Ifugao are an indigenous people of north Luzon in the Philippines, numbering approximately 70, 000. In addition to practising shifting cultivation on highland slopes, they build elaborate terraced rice fields. Their language belongs to the Austronesian family. The Ifugao live in scattered hamlets and traditionally recognise a class of nobles, kadangya, who are obliged to provide expensive feasts on particular social occasions. Although indigenous beliefs remain, many
Ifugao have adopted Christianity.
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Ignacio Altamirano was a Mexican writer and politician. He was born in 1834 and died in 1893. A Mexican Indian, he wrote poetry and novels including 'Clemencia' and 'El zarco'.
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Ignacy Paderewski was a Polish pianist, composer and Prime Minister of Poland. He was born in 1860 and died in 1941. He composed Minuet in G.
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An ignicolist is a fire-worshiper.
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An ignorantist is someone opposed to the diffusion of knowledge, reform or enlightenment.
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Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer. He was born in 1882 near St Petersburg and died in 1971. He wrote several ballets. He went to the USA in 1939 and in 1945 became an American citizen.
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Il Garofalo (real name Benvenuto Tisio) was an Italian painter. He was born in 1481 at Ferrara and died in 1559. He studied under Domenico Panetti at Ferrara and Boccaccio Boccaccino at Cremona and worked in Rome and at Mantua under Lorenzo Costa before returning home in 1501 where he was associated with the brothers Dossi in paintings for the Borgias' court. He was again at Rome in 1509, when he came under the influence of Raphael, but in 1512 he appears to have settled permanently at Ferrara. In 1550 he became totally blind.
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The Ilocano are a Polynesian people of Malay descent living in the north- west corner of Luzon in the Philippines. According to their tradition they arrived there via Borneo, Palawan and Mindoro before 200 BC.
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The Imeretians are a western Georgian tribe of the Grazinian people.
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Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher. He was born at Konigsberg in 1724 and died in 1804. He wrote 'Critique of Pure Reason' and 'Critique of Practical Reason'.
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Imre Nagy was a Hungarian statesman. He was born in 1896 and died in 1958. He was prime minister from 1953 to 55 and again in 1956. He was removed from office and later executed when Soviet forces suppressed the revolution of 1956. He was reburied with honours in 1989.
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Ina was King of the West Saxons. He ascended to the throne in 689. In 728 he resigned his crown and went on pilgrimage to Rome. He was renowned as a brave and wise ruler who left behind a code of laws.
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The Inca were an Indian tribe of Peru.
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Increase Mather was an American clergyman. He was born in 1639 and died in 1723. He was pastor of the North Church, Boston, From 1664 until his death. He was prominent both in church and State. He was opposed to the half-way covenant, and secured the summoning of the synods of 1679 and 1680. He zealously opposed the surrender of the Massachusetts charter to Charles II in 1683, and secured a new charter for the colony in 1688. He was president of Harvard College from 1685 to 1701. He wrote a biography of Reverend Richard Mather, A History of the War with the Indians, and many other works.
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Increase Sumner was an American politician. He was born in 1746 and died in 1799. He was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature from 1776 to 1780 and of the Senate from 1780 to 1782. He was a Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court from 1782 to 1797. He was a member of the convention that adopted the Federal Constitution in 1788, and was Governor of Massachusetts from 1797 to 1799.
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Indulf was King of Scotland from 954 to 962.
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Inigo Jones was an English architect. He was born in 1573 and died in 1652.
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Inmuttooyahlatlat ('Chief Joseph') was an American Indian chief of the Nez Perce tribe. He was born in 1840 at Wallowa Valley and died in 1904. He succeeded to the leadership of the tribe in 1871 and led resistance to white encroachment, leading his people in the Nez Perce War of 1877, defeating the US army at several engagements while conducting a masterly retreat toward Canada. He at last surrendered to General Nelson A Miles on October the 5th 1877.
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The Inuit (also Innuit) are a people inhabiting the Arctic coasts of North America, the east islands of the Canadian Arctic, and the ice-free coasts of Greenland. They are short of stature, averaging around 1.6 meters tall, with broad, fat faces, black eyes, brownish yellow skin and coarse black hair. They live by hunting and fishing. Hunting is done with dog drawn sledges, fishing from a canoe. During the summer they live in tents and in winter huts made from turf and snow heated by oil lamps. They tend to live in small groups of twenty to thirty families and practise a shamanistic religion. In 1912 an expedition discovered white Inuit with red hair and blue eyes and implements which led to the belief that they may be descendants of old Norse Vikings who visited North America from 1000 onwards. Inuktitut, their language, has about 60,000 speakers; it belongs to the Eskimo-Aleut group. The Inuit object to the name Eskimos (an insulting Abenaki word meaning 'raw flesh-eater') given them by the Algonquin Indians.
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Marshal Ion Antonescu was a Romanian fascist dictator. he was born in 1886 and died in 1946. In September 1940 he was appointed Premier of Romania and pledged his support to Hitler and Mussolini. He supported the German invasion of Russia, and Romanian troops fought at Stalingrad. As the Axis campaign in Russia faltered and became a retreat, Antonescu tried to pull out of the fascist alliance. In 1944 King Michael announced a coup in Romania and Antonescu was arrested.
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Iosif Romualdovich Grigulevich was a Lithuanian born KGB spy. He trained saboteurs during the Spanish Civil War, was involved in the operations to kill Lev Trotsky in Mexico and during the Second World War ran an 'illegal residency' in Argentina which specialised in the sabotage of ships and cargoes bound for Germany. In 1949 he set up an illegal residency in Rome under the false identity of 'Teodor Castro' the illegitimate child of a Costa Rican noble. He later went on, while still a KGB agent, to become an adviser to the Costa Rican delegation to the United Nations - being so far under cover that his Soviet colleagues not knowing his true identity lambasted him at the Sixth Session of the UN General Assembly in Paris, being described as a 'diplomatic clown' - being a highly respected diplomat with access to leading politicians in Europe and the Pope.
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The Iquitos were a tribe of South American Indians who formerly occupied a wide domain about the rivers Tigre, Nanay, Napo and other affluents of the Upper Amazon.
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Ira Joy Chase was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Indiana from 1891 until 1893.
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Irina Natanovna Press is a Russian athlete. She was born in 1939. She competed in the pentathlon and hurdles events, breaking the world pentathlon record eight times during her career, including winning the gold medal for the pentathlon at the 1964 Olympic Games. She beat the world record in the 80 meters hurdles six times, winning the gold medal in the 80 meters hurdles at the 1960 Olympic Games.
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The Irish are people of Irish culture from Ireland or person of Irish descent. The Irish mainly speak English, though there are approximately 30, 000-100,000 speakers of Irish Gaelic, a Celtic language belonging to the Indo-European family. Celtic tribes, the ancestors of the Irish, migrated to Ireland about 300 BC. Later known as Gaels (Irishmen), they settled on the Isle of Man and south west Scotland, and established colonies in west Wales, Devon, and Cornwall.
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The Irish Invincibles were a secret society established in Dublin in 1881 with the purpose to make history by killing tyrants. Each member was bound to obey orders, under pain of death.
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The Iroquois, or Six Nations, were a confederation of North American Indian tribes including the Mohawks, Oneidas and Senecas. They lived on the shores of the Mohawk river, and spread through to the Mississippi. In the seventeenth century they carried on extensive hostilities against the French and suffered severe losses, some of the tribes being wiped out by the settlers. The Iroquois allied themselves with the Dutch and subsequently with the English, though they afterward joined Pontiac.
Peace was restored, but in 1774 a part of the western bands took up arms against the whites. During the American War of Independence the Iroquois, with the exception of those in Canada, favoured England. They fought against the colonists and committed extensive ravages. At the close of the war nearly all emigrated to Canada, except the Oneidas and Tuscaroras, with whom the Government made a treaty in 1784. In 1785 and 1788, the Indians began to cede lands. In the War of 1812, the English and American Iroquois were arrayed against each other, but peace was soon restored. The tribes became scattered some going west and being imprisoned on squalid reservations, and others seeking their relatives in Canada.
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Irvin McDowell was an American soldier. He was born in 1818 and died in 1885. He graduated from West Point in 1838 and served, like so many other West-Pointers, in the Mexican War. In 1861 he was appointed brigadier-general, and placed in charge of the Army of the Potomac. His plans for the first battle of Bull Run were admittedly excellent, but nothing could check the demoralization of the green troops. His reputation as a general was unjustly involved in the collapse of the army, and he was never again intrusted with high command. He was a corps commander in Virginia in 1862, fought at the battles of Cedar Mountain and second Bull Run; after the American Civil War he was a commander of various military departments, was promoted major-general in 1872, and retired in 1882.
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Irving Berlin (real name Israel Baline) was a Siberian-born American composer. He was born in 1888 at Temun, Siberia and died in 1989 of a heart attack. He was taken to live in the USA when he was a child before working as a singing waiter and then writing his own songs, composing music for films during the 1920's and 1930's and beyond, writing the words and music for over 900 songs including the classic 'I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas'.
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Isaac Barre was a British soldier and politician. He was born in 1726 and died in 1802. A British colonel, he was a member of Parliament from 1761 until 1790 and opposed the Stamp Act and the American policy of Lord North's administration.
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Isaac Barrow was an eminent English mathematician and divine. He was born in 1630 at London and died in 1677. He studied at the Charterhouse and at Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in 1649. After a course of medical studies he turned to divinity, mathematics, and astronomy, graduated anew at Oxford in 1652, and, failing to obtain the Cambridge Greek professorship, went abroad. In 1659 he was ordained; in 1660 elected Greek professor at Cambridge; in 1662 professor of geometry in Gresham College; and in 1663 Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, a post which he resigned to Isaac Newton in 1669. In 1670 he was created D.D., in 1672 master of Trinity College, and in 1675 vice-chancellor of Cambridge University. His principal mathematical works (written in Latin) were (an edition of which was edited by Whewell): Euclidis Elementa, 1655; Euclidis Data, 1657; Mathematics Lectiones, 1664-66; Lectiones Opticse, 1669; Lectiones Geometricse, 1670; Archimedis Opera; Apollonii Conicorum lib. iv.; Theodosii Spherica, 1675. All his English works, which are theological, were left in manuscripts and published by Dr. Tillotson in 1685. As a mathematician Barrow was deemed inferior only to Isaac Newton.
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Isaac Bickerstaff was an Irish dramatic writer. He was born in 1735 and died in 1812.
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Isaac Butts was an American journalist. He was born in 1816 and died in 1874. He edited the 'Rochester Advertiser' from 1845 until 1849 and the 'Rochester Union' from 1857 until 1864. He was known as a writer on politics and economics and originated, and promulgated the doctrine known as 'Squatter Sovereignty' or 'Popular Sovereignty', that the people of each territory should decide the question of slavery for themselves.
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Isaac Chauncy was an American sailor. He was born in 1772 and died in 1840. He distinguished himself in naval actions off Tripoli. Between 1812 and 1814 he commanded the fleet on Lake Ontario, displaying great skill and energy, and gained important advantages over the British.
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Isaac H Williamson was an American politician. He was a Democratic- Republican governor of New Jersey from 1817 until 1829.
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Isaac Hayes was an American surgeon and explorer. He was born in 1832 and died in 1881. He made three voyages of exploration to the Arctic regions, served as surgeon during the American Civil War, and, was a member of the New York Assembly from 1865 to 1870.
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Isaac Hayne was an American patriot. He was born in 1745 at South Carolina and died in 1781. He entered the colonial army at the outbreak of the American War of Independence, and when the British took possession of Charleston in 1780 was paroled. In 1781 he made an incursion. against the British, was pursued by a. superior force and taken prisoner. He was sentenced to death by the British without a trial and hanged.
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Isaac Hill was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of New Hampshire from 1836 until 1839.
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Isaac E Holmes was an American politician. He was born in 1796 and died in 1867. He served in the South Carolina Legislature in 1826 and 1832, where he proposed the nullification acts. He was a Democratic US Congressman from 1838 to 1851.
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Isaac Huger was an American soldier. He was born in 1742 and died in 1797. He was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the first South Carolina regiment in the American War of Independence. He was commissioned brigadier-general in the US army in 1779, and engaged in all the important battles of the Southern army. He fought at Stono, Savannah, Charleston, Guilford Court House and Hobkirk's Hill.
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Isaac Hull was an American sailor. He was born in 1773 at Connecticut and died in 1843. He entered the merchant marine in 1784. In 1798, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the American navy. He commanded the Argus in 1804, and engaged in the Barbary Wars. In 1806, he was commissioned captain, and in 1807 assigned to the command of the ship Constitution. He was highly honoured for successfully evading an attack of a superior British force in 1812. Soon afterward he captured the British ship Guerriere with a loss of fourteen men killed and wounded, while the enemy lost seventy-nine. This was the first and most famous naval victory during the war. He afterward commanded the Pacific and Mediterranean squadrons, and served on the Board of Naval Commissioners.
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Isaac Jogues wasa French misionary. He was born in 1607 and died in 1646. He went to Canada from France in 1630, and spent his life among the Indians as a Jesuit missionary. He was twice taken captive by the Mohawk Indians, terribly tortured, and finally killed by them.
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Isaac Johnson was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Louisiana from 1846 until 1850.
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Isaac Murphy was an American politician. He was a Union governor of Arkansas from 1864 until 1868.
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Isaac N Arnold was an American politician and writer. He was born in 1815 at Illinois and died in 1884. he was a Republican member of Congress from 1861 until 1865 and was a close friend of Abraham Lincoln of whom he wrote a highly respected biography.
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Sir Isaac Newton was an English scientist. He was born at Woolsthorpe in 1642 and died in 1727. He put forward the theory that the universe is regulated by simple mathematical laws.
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Isaac Ostade was a Dutch landscape painter. He was born in 1621 and died in 1649.
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Isaac P Gray was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Indiana from 1880 until 1881.
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Isaac Shelby was an American soldier politician. He was born in 1750 and died in 1826. He served in the battle of Point Pleasant in 1774. He distinguished himself at the battle of Long Island Flats, Tennessee, with the Indians in 1776. In 1780 he defeated the British at Cedar Springs and Musgrove's Mill. He planned and engaged in the battle of King's Mountain. He was Governor of Kentucky from 1792 to 1796 and from 1812 to 1816. In 1812 he organized a body of 4,000 volunteers and joined General Harrison in Canada, taking part in the victory of the Thames.
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Isaac Merritt Singer was an American engineer. He was born in 1811 and died in 1875. He developed and patented a single-thread and chain-stitching sewing machine.
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Isaac Stevens was an American politician and soldier. He was born in 1818 and died in 1862. He was Governor of Washington Territory from 1853 to 1857, when he became a delegate to the US Congress, serving until 1861. He commanded a division at Newport News, and fought at Manassas and Chantilly, where he was killed.
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Isaac Taylor was an English philologist and writer. He was born in 1829 at Stanford Rivers and died in 1901. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge he was ordained in 1857 and from 1965 until 1869 was vicar at Bethnal Green and from 1869 until 1875 at Twickenham. In 1875 he became rector of Settrington, Yorkshire where he died in 1901.
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Isaac Tichenor was an American politician. He was a Federalist governor of Vermont from 1797 until 1807.
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Isaac Todhunter was an English mathematician. He was born in 1820 at Rye and died in 1884. He was educated at University College, London and at St John's College, Cambridge of which he became a fellow and senior wrangler. He compiled the standard Euclid in 1862 as well as writing other books on mathematics.
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Isaac R Trimble was an American soldier/ He was born in 1802 and died in 1888. He commanded a Confederate brigade at Games' Mills and Slaughter Mountain, and captured Manassas Junction in 1862. He led a division at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.
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Isaac Watts was an English poet and hymn-writer. He was born in 1674 and died in 1748.
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Isaac Wilbur was an American politician. He was a governor of Rhode Island from 1806 until 1807.
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Isaac Williams was a Welsh poet and theologian. He was born in 1802 near Aberystwyth and died in 1865. In 1831 he became a fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. His poems and prose writings are chiefly devotional, among the former being The Cathedral, The Christian Seasons', and among the latter, Devotional Commentary on the Gospel Narratives, The Apocalypse, and Sermons. Williams' religious views were of the Tractarian school, and he was the author of the celebrated tract, ' Reserve in communicating Religious Knowledge'.
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Isaiah Thomas was an American journalist. He was born in 1749 and died in 1831. He edited the Massachusetts Spy from 1771 to 1801. He earnestly supported the Revolutionary movement by his paper. From 1775 to 1801 he published the celebrated New England Almanac. He founded the American Antiquarian Society, to which he gave valuable books, files of newspapers and estates. He wrote 'A History of Printing in America'.
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Isham G Harris was an American politician. He was a Democratic governor of Tennessee from 1857 until 1862.
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The Ishogo are a Bantu tribe of the Congo, inhabiting the mountains south of the Ogowe.
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Israel Pickens was an American politician. He was a Democratic-Republican governor of Alabama from 1821 until 1825.
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Israel Putnam was an American soldier. He was born in 1718 ay Danvers, Massachusetts and died in 1790. A Revolutionary general, he first settled as a farmer in north-eastern Connecticut, near Pomfret. Putnam's early life is associated with many romantic episodes, the wolf hunt, his service in the French and Indian War with Rogers' Rangers, his rescue of Fort Edward, and his narrow escape from death by burning while a prisoner of the Indians.
He was in command of a regiment with General Amherst in the Canadian campaign of 1760. In the stirring times following he was one of the chief 'Sons of liberty'. How at the news of Lexington he dropped his plough and rode in a day to Cambridge is a fireside story. Putnam was made commander of the Connecticut troops and a brigadier. He commanded at Bunker Hill conjointly with Colonel Prescott. Forthwith he was appointed one of the major-generals, and had charge of the centre in the siege of Boston.
In the defence of Long Island he was entrusted with the works on Brooklyn Heights, and in the retreat from New York his name is often mentioned. For a short time he was Governor of Philadelphia, and was then in 1777 placed in command of the defences in the Highlands of the Hudson. He was engaged in the repulse of Tryon's troops in the south-west of Connecticut, in connection with which is related the somewhat apocryphal story of Putnam's escape on horseback down a flight of stone steps.
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Israel Smith was an American politician. He was a Democratic-Republican governor of Vermont from 1807 until 1808.
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Israel Washburn Jr was an American politician. He was a Republican governor of Maine from 1861 until 1863.
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An Israeli is an inhabitant of Israel.
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Israel B Richardson was an American soldier. He was born in 1815 at vermont and died in 1862. He was brevetted major for services at Contreras, Churubusco and Chapultepec. He led a brigade at Bull Run, and commanded a division at Chickahominy, South Mountain and Antietam, where he was mortally wounded.
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Count Istvan Tisza was a Hungarian statesman. He was born in 1861 and died in 1918. The youngest son of Koloman Tisza, he entered the Hungarian chamber in 1886, and soon became a leading force in political life in connection with land and economic questions. He was premier, from 1903 until 1905, retiring from public life in the latter year. Later he was president of the chamber, and again premier from 1912 until 1917. His chief aim was to Magyarise Hungary, and to promote her ascendancy within the Dual Monarchy. He collaborated with Count Berchtold in framing the ultimatum to Serbia, in July, 1914, which precipitated the Great War, during which he was a strong supporter of Germany. He was assassinated on November the 1st, 1918.
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Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) was a Tsar of Russia. He was born in 1530 and died in 1584. He became Grand Prince of Moscow in 1533 and was crowned Tsar of all Russia in 1547. As Tsar he followed a policy of expansion and consolidation, conquering Kazan, Astrakhan and Western Siberia. After the death of his first wife he became tyrannical and was responsible for several ruthless massacres including the killing of his own son in 1561. He went on to marry a further five times.
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Ivan Stepanovich Koniev was a Russian general. He was born in 1897 at Lodeyno and died in 1973. In 1916 he joined the Red Army and in 1918 the Communist Party. Graduating from Frunze Military Academy in 1934 before successfully commanding several fronts against the Germans during the Second World War. After the Second World War he was Commander-in-Chief of the Warsaw Pact forces from 1956 to 1960.
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Ivan Stepanovich Mazeppa was a Cossack nobleman. He was born in 1644 and died in 1709. He fought for independence for the Ukraine from Russia.
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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian psychologist. He was born in 1849 at Ryazan and died in 1936. He conducted work into conditioned reflexes using dogs.
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Ivan Sergeievitch Turgenev was a Russian novelist. He was born in 1818 at Orel and died in 1883. Educated at Moscow, St Petersburg and in Berlin he wrote 'A Sportsman's Sketches' in 1852 which dealt with country life and the plight of Russian serfs.
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Ivan Vasoff was a Bulgarian novelist and poet. He was born in 1850. He developed and beautified the modern Bulgarian language.
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Ivar Andreas Aasen was a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer and writer. He was born in 1813 at Sunmore and died in 1896. From Old Norwegian and various dialects he constructed the language Landsmal to replace the official Dano-Norwegian language and published 'Det norske folkesprog grammatik' in 1848, and 'Ordbog over det norske folkesprog' in 1850.
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The Ivatans are a people inhabiting the northern Philippines province of Batanes. The Ivatans are a mixed race of Malay and settlers who came from Formosa and Spain during the 16th century.
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Izaak Walton was an English writer. He was born in 1593 at Stafford and died in 1683. He wrote 'The Compleat Angler', the first English nature book.
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