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- (from the article "animal development") ...was presumably originally an optic centre, but it has acquired, in the course of evolution, a function of hormonal regulation. The floor of the diencephalon forms a funnel-shaped depression, the infundibulum, which becomes connected with the pituitary, or hypophysis, the ...
- infused contemplation
- (from the article "Christianity") ...grace offered only to a few. The discrimination of the various forms of prayer and the distinction between acquired contemplation, for which the believer could strive with the help of grace, and infused contemplation, which was a pure and unmerited ...
- infusorigen
- (from the article "mesozoan") ...in the same host, thus increasing the parasite population within the host's kidney. In the next phase, known as the rhombogen phase, a few axoblasts differentiate into minute organisms known as infusorigens; these are reduced hermaphroditic individuals that remain in ...
- ING Cup
- (from the article "Cricket") ...the Twenty20 Cup (the 20-over-a-side tournament that, in its second season, lured a crowd of over 25,000 to Lord's). Victoria won Australia's Pura Cup, and Western Australia took the one-day ING Cup. Eastern Province beat Gauteng in the final of ...
- Inga Falls
- rapids on the lower Congo River and site of one of the world's largest hydroelectric-dam projects, in western Democratic Republic of the Congo, about 25 miles (40 km) above the port of Matadi. At a sharp bend in the river ...
- Ingaevone
- (from the article "Germanic peoples") ...that according to their ancient songs the Germans were descended from the three sons of Mannus, the son of the god Tuisto, the son of Earth. Hence they were divided into three groups-the Ingaevones, the Herminones, and the Istaevones-but the ...
- Ingalls Building
- (from the article "building construction") ...Ernest Ransome paralleled Hennebique's work, constructing factory buildings in concrete. High-rise structures in concrete followed the paradigm of the steel frame. Examples include the 16-story Ingalls Building (1903) in Cincinnati, which was 54 metres (180 feet) tall, and the 11-story ...
- Ingarden, Roman
- (from the article "aesthetics") ...nature and demands of aesthetic interest. Others dismiss the search for a criterion of identity as both aesthetically insignificant and illusory in itself. Still others, notably the Phenomenologist Roman Ingarden, argue that the work of art exists on several levels, ...
- Inge I Haraldsson
- king of Norway (1136-61), who maintained his claim to the throne against the illegitimate sons of his father, the Norwegian king Harald IV Gille (reigned 1130-36), and represented the interests of the higher nobles and clergy in the second part ...
- Inge, William
- American playwright best known for his plays Come Back, Little Sheba (1950; filmed 1952); Picnic (1953; filmed 1956), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize; and Bus Stop (1955; filmed 1956). [1 Related Articles]
- Inge, William Ralph
- British divine, Christian Platonist, and dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. He was noted for his keen intellect and for his pessimistic views, which earned him the title "gloomy dean." [2 Related Articles]
- Ingeborg
- (from the article "Philip II") ...years before he tried to take advantage of the papacy's quarrel with John of England, Philip had himself been in dispute with Rome. After the death (1190) of Isabella of Hainaut, he had married Ingeborg, sister of the Danish king ...
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
- (from the article "Literature") ...German prize for lifetime literary achievement, went to writer Wilhelm Genazino, whose work addressed the understated comedy of the everyday life of ordinary figures in a West German milieu. The Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for the best emerging author in the ...
- Ingegneri, Marcantonio
- (from the article "Monteverdi, Claudio") Monteverdi, the son of a barber-surgeon and chemist, studied with the director of music at Cremona cathedral, Marcantonio Ingegneri, a well-known musician who wrote church music and madrigals of some distinction in an up-to-date though not revolutionary style of the ...
- Ingelger
- (from the article "Anjou") Under one of the sons of Robert the Strong, Anjou was entrusted to a certain Ingelger, who became the founder of the first Angevin dynasty. Ingelger's son Fulk I the Red rid the country of the Normans and enlarged his ...
- Ingelow, Jean
- English poet and novelist popular in her own day and remembered for her narrative poem "The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571" (1863), which reveals considerable command of language and a power to evoke feeling.
- Ingemann, Bernhard Severin
- historical novelist and poet whose works glorifying Denmark's medieval past were popular for generations. Most of Ingemann's many works have not won enduring acclaim, but his simple morning and evening songs (1837-38) are much admired in Denmark. The title of ...
- Ingenhousz, Jan
- Dutch-born British physician and scientist who is best known for his discovery of the process of photosynthesis, by which green plants in sunlight absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen. [2 Related Articles]
- Ingermanland
- (from the article "Russia") Russia's acquisition of Ingria and Livonia (and later of Kurland) brought into the empire a new national and political minority: the German elites-urban bourgeoisie and landowning nobility-with their corporate privileges, harsh exploitation of native (Estonian and Latvian) servile peasantry, and ...
- Ingersoll, Robert G(reen)
- American politician and orator known as "the great agnostic" who popularized the higher criticism of the Bible, as well as a humanistic philosophy and a scientific rationalism.
- ingestion
- (from the article "digestion") As already explained, the nutrients obtained by most green plants are small inorganic molecules that can move with relative ease across cell membranes. Heterotrophic organisms such as bacteria and fungi, which require organic nutrients yet lack adaptations for ingesting bulk ...
- Ingham
- town, northeastern Queensland, Australia, 19 miles (31 km) upstream from the mouth of the Herbert River. Founded in 1864, it was gazetted a shire in 1879. On a rail line and the Bruce Highway from Brisbane (745 miles [1,199 km] ...
- Ingila, Jarome
- (from the article "Olympic Games") ...of Finland, who won all three Nordic combined events. The Salt Lake Games also saw bobsledder Vonetta Flowers become the first black athlete to win a Winter gold medal. Canadian hockey player Jarome Ingila then became the first black male ...
- Inglefield, Sir Edward Augustus
- (from the article "Ellesmere Island") ...located off the northwest coast of Greenland. The island is believed to have been visited by Vikings in the 10th century. It was seen in 1616 by the explorer William Baffin and was named in 1852 by Sir Edward A. ...
- Inglehart, Ronald
- (from the article "postmaterialism") value orientation that emphasizes self-expression and quality of life over economic and physical security. The term postmaterialism was first coined by American social scientist Ronald Inglehart in The Silent Revolution: Changing Values and Political Styles Among Western Publics (1977).
- inglenook
- wooden seat or settle built into the space on either side of the wide fireplaces common in 17th-century English houses and cottages. The word is of Scottish origin, "ingle" meaning a housefire burning on a hearth. This type of built-in ...
- Inglewood
- city, Los Angeles county, California, U.S. It lies southwest of downtown Los Angeles. Settled in 1873 by Daniel Freeman, who named the city for his hometown in Canada, it was laid out by the Centinela-Inglewood Land Company in 1887 and ...
- Inglin, Meinrad
- Swiss novelist and short-story writer who powerfully portrayed rural and small town life and values and warned against the influences of modern mass civilization. Educated at the universities of Neuchatel, Geneva, and Bern, he was awarded (1948) the Schiller Prize ...
- Inglis, Charles
- Canadian clergyman and educator who became the first Anglican bishop of Nova Scotia. [1 Related Articles]
- Inglis, Charles Edward
- (from the article "solids, mechanics of") ...at the boundary, by a factor of three when the remote stress was uniaxial tension. Then in 1907 the Russian mathematician Gury Vasilyevich Kolosov, and independently in 1914 the British engineer Charles Edward Inglis, derived the analogous solution for stresses ...
- Inglis, Esther
- Scottish calligrapher born in London to French parents, who produced about 55 miniature manuscript books between 1586 and 1624 and whose work was much admired and collected in her lifetime.
- Inglis, James
- (from the article "fundamentalism, Christian") ...and the Adventist churches in the 1830s and '40s-inspired a popular movement through the Niagara Bible Conference, held every summer at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. Initiated by James Inglis, a New York City Baptist minister, shortly before his death in 1872, the ...
- Ingolstadt
- city, Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. It lies along the Danube and Schutter rivers, southwest of Regensburg. First mentioned in 806 as a crown estate, villa Ingoldestat, it was chartered in 1250 and became a ducal seat ...
- Ingombe Ilede
- (from the article "Zambia") ...of class distinctions and the beginnings of trade with the east coast. About the 14th century a few people were buried wearing ornaments of seashells and exotic glass beads near Kalomo and at Ingombe Ilede, near the confluence of the ...
- ingot
- mass of metal cast into a size and shape such as a bar, plate, or sheet convenient to store, transport, and work into a semifinished or finished product; it also refers to a mold in which metal is so cast. ... [3 Related Articles]
- Ingraham, Hubert
- Bahamian political leader who became prime minister in 1992. [1 Related Articles]
- Ingraham, Prentiss
- (from the article "Cody, William F.") ...reporters but also for dime novelists, who transformed the hard-riding, fast-shooting Cody into a Western folk hero. Among these early authors were Ned Buntline (pen name of E.Z.C. Judson) and Prentiss Ingraham. Recognizing the financial possibilities inherent in dramatizing the ...
- Ingrain
- (from the article "floor covering") Machine-made rugs and carpets take their names from the looms employed-Wilton, for example-or the construction method, such as ingrain or Brussels.
- ingrain dye
- (from the article "dye") The discovery of the azo dyes led to the development of ingrain dyeing, whereby the dye is synthesized within the fabric (see above Dyeing techniques: Azo dyeing techniques). Since the process was done at ice temperature, some dyes were called ice ...
- Ingram, Herbert
- (from the article "publishing, history of") The first man in Britain to notice the effect of illustrations on sales and grasp their possibilities was a newsagent in Nottingham, Herbert Ingram, who moved to London in 1842 and began publishing The Illustrated London News, ...
- Ingram, John Kells
- Irish economic historian who also achieved fame as a scholar and poet.
- Ingram, Vernon Martin
- American biochemist (b. May 19, 1924, Breslau, Ger. [now Wroclaw, Pol.]-d. Aug. 17, 2006, Boston, Mass.), was hailed as the father of molecular medicine for having discovered in the mid-1950s that the alteration of a single amino acid in the ...
- Ingrams's Peace
- (from the article "Yemen") ...incorporation of the Hadramawt and its great valley into the protectorate system-the result of the labours of British diplomat Harold Ingrams, who negotiated the famous "Ingrams's Peace" among the more than 1,400 tribes and clans that had been feuding in ...
- Ingrams, Harold
- (from the article "Yemen") ...in the south. The most important change was the incorporation of the Hadramawt and its great valley into the protectorate system-the result of the labours of British diplomat Harold Ingrams, who negotiated the famous "Ingrams's Peace" among the more than ...
- Ingres period
- (from the article "Renoir, Pierre-Auguste") ...from 1883 to 1884 on are so marked by a new discipline that art historians have grouped them under the title the "Ingres" period (to signify their vague similarity to the technique of J.-A.-D. Ingres) or the "harsh," or "dry," ...
- Ingres, J.-A.-D
- painter and icon of cultural conservatism in 19th-century France. Ingres became the principal proponent of French Neoclassical painting after the death of his mentor, Jacques-Louis David. His cool, meticulously drawn works constituted the stylistic antithesis of the emotionalism and colourism ... [10 Related Articles]
- ingress
- in astronomy, the apparent entrance of a smaller body upon the disk of a larger one as the smaller passes between the larger and the observer-e.g., the entrance of a satellite or its shadow on the disk of a planet. ...
- Ingrian
- (from the article "Finno-Ugric religion") ...are one of the three most advanced of the Finno-Ugric peoples, the others being the Finns and the Hungarians. Small but interesting cultures are represented by the Greek Orthodox Votes and Izhora Ingrians, both nearly extinct groups living near the ...
- Ingrian language
- (from the article "Finno-Ugric languages") ...and Khanty (Ostyak). The Finnic division of Finno-Ugric languages is composed of five groups. The Baltic-Finnic group consists of Finnish, Estonian, Karelian (including Olonets), Ludic, Veps, Ingrian, Livonian, and Votic. The Permic group consists of Komi (Zyryan), Permyak, and Udmurt ...
- Ingrid
- Swedish-born Danish royal (b. March 28, 1910, Stockholm, Swed.-d. Nov. 7, 2000, Fredensborg, Den.), was queen of Denmark from 1947 to 1972, after which she was known as Queen Mother Ingrid. Ingrid was the only daughter of King Gustaf VI ...
- Ingrid Alexandra
- (from the article "Norway") On January 21 Crown Princess Mette-Marit gave birth to a daughter. The new princess, who was baptized Ingrid Alexandra on April 17, was the second in line to the throne behind her father, Crown Prince Haakon. The crown prince filled ...
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