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Ian Hacking (born 1936-02-18 in Vancouver) is a Canadian philosopher specializing in philosophy of science . He became a lecturer at Cambridge in 1969, and shifted to Stanford in 1974 to teach in behavioural science. After teaching for sev...
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Ian Hamilton defined his poems with clarity in the Bulletin of the Poetry Book Society (Summer 1974) when he characterized them as "dramatic lyrics .... the intense climatic moment of a drama," adding that the reader must supply "the prose...
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The earliest poems and short stories of Ian Hamilton Finlay are characterized by economy of language and a direct, simple effectiveness. During the 1960s he turned for his materials toward a largely unexplored territory (at that time misle...
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What do you mean, funny? Funny-peculiar or funny ha-ha?...
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Ian Hislop (born 1960) is the editor and part-owner of British satirical magazine Private Eye . Sourced Boris Johnson , people always ask me the same question, they say, 'Is Boris a very very clever man pretending to be an idiot?' And I al...
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This people article needs cleanup. Please review , especially the standard format of people articles , to determine how to edit this article to conform to the current standard . Ian Holloway (born 12 March 1963) is an English football mana...
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Professor Sir Ian Kershaw (born 1943-04-29 ) is a British historian, now based at the University of Sheffield . He is a specialist in the study of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich . Sourced The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but pave...
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Ian MacKaye : When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance. [1] Perfect Sound Forever : How did the idea of 'straight-edge' come about? Ian...
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Ian McEwan is very much a product of the new British universities, those popularly known as "plate-glass universities" to distinguish them from the older "red-brick universities" at which writers such as Kinglsey Amis or Philip Larkin have...
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Clydebank, Scotland, where Ian McHarg was born and raised (and where he received education through high school) produced one of America's best known design ecologists. Before his first move to the United States, McHarg had attende...
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Political leader and minister of religion, Ian K. Paisley (born 1926) played a significant role in the bitter strife that plagued Northern Ireland for decades. Ian Kyle Paisley, born on April 6, 1926, was reared in the tradition of evangel...
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Ian Rankin is one of the most successful crime writers in Great Britain and, increasingly, in the United States. The series of novels featuring Inspector John Rebus has garnered praise from reviewers commensurate to a commercial success so...
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Ian Reid. The Short Story. London: Methuen, 1977. A Discussion. The intrinsic `properties' of the short story have been in debate for well ov...
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Ian Douglas Smith (born 1919) was the last white prime minister of Rhodesia before it became the independent nation of Zimbabwe. In an effort to resist African majority rule, he led his extremist white government in a unilateral break with...
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According to a reviewer for the Washington Post Book World, Ian Watson is "probably the best thinker" in British science fiction. "I'm attempting to alter the states of mind of my readers, to make them more conscious of the operating progr...
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I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning....
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Ian Wilmut (born 1944) was a quiet unassuming British embryologist who worked to improve the productivity of farm animals. By February 1997, he had shocked the scientific community by successfully cloning the first mammal from the DNA of a...
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Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), Greek composer and architect, was one of the first to react against the post-Weberian serialists and pointillists who dominated music in the 1950s. Initially, his most notable achievement was the invention of "s...
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The potential for ADDICTION or ABUSE influences the licit medical use of many drugs, including OPIOIDS, BENZODIAZEPINES, BARBITURATES, and others. This influence can be evaluated from two perspectives—(1) the risk that addiction or ...
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Stefan Iavorsky was one of the most educated and prominent figures in the Russian church during the Petrine period: he became, despite his wishes, the head of the Russian Orthodox church during the difficult period of its subordination to ...
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Nikolai Iazykov would most likely have perceived his role in the development of Russian Romantic literature quite differently than did either his contemporaries or the subsequent generations of critics. He would have placed a greater value...
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Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues. Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues....
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Armando P. Ibáñez is a poet who writes passionately about man and his physical and spiritual existence. Though Ibáñez's poetry tends to explore existential universal themes, his constant use of the Spanish langu...
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The poetry of Sara de Ibáñez has been praised throughout the Hispanic world since its first appearance in 1940. Her poems appear in many anthologies, and she has been acclaimed by such giants of Hispanic letters as the Nobel ...
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(2002 est. pop. 3.1 million). Ibaraki Prefecture is situated in the central region of Japan's island of Honshu, where it occupies an area of 6,095 square kilometers. Ibaraki's main geographical features are the Abukuma and Ya...
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Iberia, by James Michener, is a detailed exploration of Spain at it existed in the mid 1960s. The author takes a measured, literary view on such subjects as the Moorish occupation, Islam, Catholicism, Francisco Franco and other controversia...
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IBERIAN RELIGION. The term Iberian religion is used here geographically. It refers to the religious systems of Iberia, the name the Greeks gave in antiquity to the Iberian Peninsula, from the arrival of the Phoenicians (documented by the n...
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To introduce a Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking perspective on science, technology, and ethics is difficult and somewhat artificial. From the beginning it must be acknowledged that Spain and Portugal on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe toge...
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IBĀḌIYYA. The Ibāḍiyya sect (also known as the Ibāḍī sect, or simply as the Ibāḍīs) constitutes one of the main branches of Islam. The Ibāḍīs are re...
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International Business Machines (IBM) is a global producer of computers and computer related products. IBM is a global leader in creating, developing, and manufacturing the most advanced information technology, computer systems, software, ...
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STRETCH was the code name for the International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation's first line of supercomputers, the IBM Stretch 7030; where the first unit was completed in 1961. A supercomputer is a large, very fast, and expensive comp...
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IBN ʿAṬĀʾ ALLĀH (AH c. 650–709, c. 1252–1309 CE), more fully Ahmād ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn ʿAṭā Allāh al-Iskandarī, ...
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Ibn Al- s Meccan Illuminations. Louisville: Fons Vitae, forthcoming. Sells, Michael A. Mystical Languages of Unsaying. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994....
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IBN AL-ʿARABĪ (1165–1240 CE), known throughout the Islamic world simply as the "greatest master" (al-Shaykh al-akbar), is acknowledged to be one of the most important spiritual teachers within the mystica...
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d. 1248 Arab botanist and pharmacist whose works included botanical and pharmaceutical encyclopedias. Ibn al-Baitar spent his early career in Spain before embarking in 1219 on an expedition across the North African coast, where he collecte...
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1256-1321 Arab mathematician and astronomer who was the first to treat a fraction as a ratio of two numbers, and the first to use the term almanac (al-manakh, or "weather," in Arabic) for a book of astronomical data. Al-Banna...
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IBN AL-FĀRIḌ (AH 576–632/1181–1235 CE), more fully Abū Ḥafṣ or Abū al-Qāsim ʿUmar ibn Abī al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-Murshid ibn ʿAlī...
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The Arab physicist, astronomer, and mathematician Abu 'Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham (ca. 966-1039), or Alhazen, established the theory of vision that prevailed till the 17th century. He also defended a theory of the physical reality of Ptol...
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c. 1305-c. 1375 Arab astronomer who sought to restore uniform circular motion to planetary theory by replacing Ptolemy's eccentric deferent and equant with secondary epicycles. This eliminated a major defect of Ptolemaic lunar theor...
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Muhyi al-Din Ibn al-Arabi (1165-1240) was an outstanding Spanish-born Moslem thinker and mystic. One of the most prolific writers of the Islamic Middle Ages on the subject of mysticism, he also wrote love poetry. Ibn al-Arabi was from Murc...
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Known in the Latin West as Avempace, the ill-fated philosopher Ibn Bajja remains somewhat mysterious. It is not known exactly when and where he was born, and there are gaps in his biography. He had an extensive knowledge of medicine and in...
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Muhammad ibn Battuta (1304-ca. 1368) was a Moorish traveler whose extensive voyages as far as Sumatra and China, southern Russia, the Maldives, the East African coast, and Timbuktu made him one of the greatest medieval travelers. Muhammad ...
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Ibn Battuta in Black Africa by Abu Abdalla ibn Battuta Born in Tangier, Morocco, in 1304, Abdalla ibn Battuta is often regarded as the foremost traveler of medieval times. In three decades of nearly constant wandering, he set foot in the te...
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IBN BĀBAWAYHI or Ibn Bābūyah (AH 306?–381/918?–991 CE), Abu Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, known as al-Ṣadūq ("the veracious"), was a Twelver Shī&...
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IBN DAUD, AVRAHAM (1110–1180), known in rabbinic texts by the acronym RABaD I (Rabbi Avraham ben David), to distinguish him from Rabad II, Avraham ben Yitsḥaq of Narbonne, and Rabad III, Avraham ben David of Posquières...
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IBN ʿEZRAʾ, AVRAHAM (c. 1089–c. 1164), was a Jewish biblical commentator and poet. Born in Christian Spain, Ibn ʿEzraʾ was educated both in traditional Jewish literature and in secular subjects. He was a ...
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Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow. I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did....
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IBN GABIROL, SHELOMOH (c. 1021–1058), known in Latin texts as Avicebron, Avencebrol, and Avicembron; Jewish poet and the first Jewish philosopher in Spain. Ibn Gabirol was born in Malaga, was raised in Saragossa, and died in Valenci...
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920-990 Arab Traveler Over a series of journeys that lasted some 30 years, Ibn Hawkal saw almost the entire Muslim world, from Spain to Central Asia, from the cool mountains of Afghanistan to the hot sands of West Africa. He set down an ac...
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Abu Muhammad Ali ibn Hazm (994-1064) was a Spanish-born Arab theologian, philosopher, and jurist whose most important work was a book on comparative religious history. Ibn Hazm was born in Cordova. His father, who was chief minister at the...
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