| Hypnosis For the states induced by hypnotic drugs, see Sleep or Unconsciousness.Hypnotized redirects here. For the Shanadoo song, see Hypnotized (song). For the Plies song, see Hypnotized (Plies song). Hypnosis is a mental state (state theory) or set of attitudes (nonstate theory) usually induced by a procedure known as a hypnotic induction, which is commonly composed of a series of preliminary instructions and suggestions. Hypnosis
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| Hangman (game) Hangman is a paper and pencil guessing game for two or more players. One player thinks of a word and the other tries to guess it by suggesting letters.The word to guess is represented by a row of dashes, giving the number of letters. If the guessing player suggests a letter which occurs in the word, the other player writes it in all its correct positions. Hangman_(game)
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| Iceland Iceland
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| Italy Italy
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| India India
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| Republic of Ireland Republic_of_Ireland
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| Indonesia Indonesia
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| Troll (Internet) In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response Troll_(Internet)
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| Idaho Idaho
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| Intel Corporation Intel_Corporation
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| Iran For the current election protests in Iran, please see 2009 Iranian election protests. Iran
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| Politics of Iraq The politics of Iraq takes place in a framework of a more or less federal parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Iraq is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Politics_of_Iraq
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| Economy of Iraq Iraq's economy is dominated by the petroleum sector, which has traditionally provided about 95% of foreign exchange earnings. In the 1980s, financial problems caused by massive expenditures in the eight-year war with Iran and damage to oil export facilities by Iran led the government to implement austerity measures, borrow heavily, and later reschedule foreign debt payments; Iraq suffered economic losses of at least $80 billion from the war. Economy_of_Iraq
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| Economy of Israel The economy of Israel is a diversified market economy with substantial state ownership and a rapidly developing high-tech sector. Poor in natural resources, Israel depends on imports of petroleum, coal, food, uncut diamonds, other production inputs, and military equipment. Economy_of_Israel
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| Undernet The Undernet is the second-largest publicly-monitored Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network circa 2007, with about 20 client servers serving 120,000 users at any given time.IRC clients can connect to Undernet via the global round robin irc.undernet.org, the region-specific round robins us.undernet.org and eu.undernet.org, or a specific server from the Undernet server list. Undernet
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| Erectile dysfunction Erectile dysfunction (ED or "male impotence") is a sexual dysfunction characterized by the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis sufficient for satisfactory sexual performance.An erection occurs as a hydraulic effect due to blood entering and being retained in sponge-like bodies within the penis. Erectile_dysfunction
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| Interactive fiction Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, describes software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narratives and as video games. In common usage, the term refers to text adventures, a type of adventure game where the entire interface is text only. Interactive_fiction
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| Illinois Illinois
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| Iran–Iraq War Iran–Iraq_War
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| Ice Age (film) Ice Age is a feature-length computer-animated film created by Blue Sky Studios and released by 20th Century Fox in 2002. It was directed by Carlos Saldanha and Chris Wedge from a story by Michael J. Wilson. Its sequels are called Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009). Ice_Age_(film)
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| Incest For other uses, see Incest (disambiguation). For the biological aspect, see inbreeding.Incest refers to any sexual activity between closely related persons (often within the immediate family) that is illegal or a social taboo. The type of sexual activity and the nature of the relationship between persons that constitutes a breach of law or social taboo vary with culture and jurisdiction. Incest
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| Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, and transportation had a profound effect on the socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain. The changes subsequently spread throughout Europe, North America, and eventually the world. Industrial_Revolution
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| IP address Internet Protocol (IP) address is a numerical identification and logical address that is assigned to devices participating in a computer network utilizing the Internet Protocol for communication between its nodes. Although IP addresses are stored as binary numbers, they are usually displayed in human-readable notations, such as 208.77.188.166 (for IPv4), and 2001IPv6). IP_address
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| ISO 8601 ISO 8601 is an international standard for date and time representations issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Specifically, the standard is titled "Data elements and interchange formats — Information interchange — Representation of dates and times". The signature feature of ISO 8601 date and time representations is the ordering of date and time values from the most to the least significant or, in plain terms, from the largest (the year) to the smallest (the second). ISO_8601
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| Interlingua Interlingua
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| Isle of Wight The Isle of Wight is an English island and a county, located 3-5English Channel. It is separated from mainland England by the Solent and is situated south of the county of Hampshire. Various regular ferry services operate across the Solent Victorian times as a holiday destination. The island is known for its outstanding natural beauty and for its world-famous sailing based at Cowes. Isle_of_Wight
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| Insurance Insurance, in law and economics, is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent loss. Insurance is defined as the equitable transfer of the risk of a loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for a premium, and can be thought of as a guaranteed small loss to prevent a large, possibly devastating loss. Insurance
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| I Ching The I Ching (Wade-Giles), “Yì Jīng” (Pinyin), Classic of Changes or Book of Changes; also called Zhouyi, is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts. The book is a symbol system used to identify order in random events.The text describes an ancient system of cosmology and philosophy that is intrinsic to ancient Chinese cultural beliefs. The cosmology centres on the ideas of the dynamic balance of opposites, the evolution of events as a process, and acceptance of the inevitability of change. I_Ching
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| I Ching/Archive 2 Talk:I_Ching/Archive_2
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| Islamabad Capital Territory Islamabad_Capital_Territory
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| Intellivision Intellivision
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| Internet Protocol The Internet Protocol (IP) is a protocol used for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork using the Internet Protocol Suite, also referred to as TCP/IP.IP is the primary protocol in the Internet Layer of the Internet Protocol Suite and has the task of delivering distinguished protocol datagrams (packets) from the source host to the destination host solely based on their addresses. Internet_Protocol
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| Interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome Interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome (commonly abbreviated to "IC/PBS"), is a urinary bladder disease of unknown cause characterised by pain associated with urination (dysuria), urinary frequency (as often as every 10 minutes), urgency, and pressure in the bladder and/or pelvis. Interstitial_cystitis/painful_bladder_syndrome
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| Japan For a topical guide to this subject, see Outline of Japan. Japan
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| Judo , meaning "gentle way", is a modern Japanese martial art (gendai budō) and combat sport, that originated in Japan in the late nineteenth century. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling manoeuvre, or force an opponent to submit by joint locking the elbow or by executing a choke. Judo
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| Junk science Junk science is a term used in U.S. political and legal disputes that brands an advocate's claims about scientific data, research, or analyses as spurious. The term may convey a pejorative connotation that the advocate is driven by political, ideological, financial, or other unscientific motives.The term was first used in relation to expert testimony in civil litigation. Junk_science
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| Jamaica Jamaica
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| Jan Mayen Jan Mayen Island is a volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean, 552 (144mi2) in area, partly covered by glaciers (an area of 114.22 around the Beerenberg). It has two partsisthmus 2.5Iceland, 500Greenland and 1,000North Cape, Norway. The island is mountainous, the highest summit being the Beerenberg volcano in the north. Jan_Mayen
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| Politics of Jordan Politics of Jordan takes place in a framework of a parliamentary monarchy, whereby the Prime Minister of Jordan is head of government, and of a multi-party system. Jordan is a constitutional monarchy based on the constitution promulgated on January 8, 1952. Politics_of_Jordan
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| Economy of Jordan Jordan is a small country with limited natural resources, but has improved much since its inception as a country. Its current GDP per capita soared by 351% in the Seventies. But this growth proved unsustainable and consequently shrank by 30% in the Eighties. Economy_of_Jordan
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| Johannes Kepler Johannes Kepler () (December 27, 1571German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution. He is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion, codified by later astronomers based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astrononomy. They also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation. Johannes_Kepler
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| James Brown James_Brown
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| Jean Cocteau Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the "algebra" of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradoxavant-garde. Jean_Cocteau
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| Jabberwocky Jabberwocky" is a poem of nonsense verse written by Lewis Carroll, originally featured as a part of his novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). It is considered by many to be one of the greatest nonsense poems written in the English language. The poem is sometimes used in primary schools to teach students about the use of portmanteaux and nonsense words in poetry, as well as use of nouns and verbs. Jabberwocky
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| J. G. Ballard James Graham Ballard (15 November 1930 English novelist and short story writer who was a prominent part of the science fiction New Wave movement. His best-known novels are the controversial Crash, an exploration of sexual fetishism connected to automobile accidents, and the loosely autobiographical Empire of the Sun, about his childhood internment by the Japanese during World War II after the invasion and conquest of Shanghai, where Ballard was born in the International Settlement. J._G._Ballard
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| Journalism Journalism is the production of news reports and editorials through media such as newspapers, magazines, radio, television and the Internet. Journalistswriters, editors, photographers, broadcast presenters or producersinformation and opinion in contemporary society. From informal beginnings in Europe of the 18th century, stimulated by the arrival of mechanized printing—mass production and in the 20th century by electronic communications technology—corporations with global distribution. Journalism
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| Japanese cuisine Japanese cuisine has developed over the centuries as a result of many political and social changes. The cuisine eventually changed with the advent of the Medieval age which ushered in a shedding of elitism with the age of Shogun rule. In the early modern era massive changes took place that introduced non-Japanese cultures, most notably Western culture, to Japan. Japanese_cuisine
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| Joke A joke is a short story or ironic depiction of a situation communicated with the intent of being humorous. These jokes will normally have a punchline that will end the sentence to make it humorous. A joke can also be a single phrase or statement that employs sarcasm. Joke
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| John W. Campbell John Wood Campbell, Jr. (June 8, 1910 – July 11, 1971) was an influential figure in science fiction. As editor of Astounding Science Fiction (later called Analog Science Fiction and Fact), from late 1937 until his death, he is generally credited with shaping the so-called Golden Age of Science Fiction. Isaac Asimov called Campbell "the most powerful force in science fiction ever, and for the first ten years of his editorship he dominated the field completely." John_W._Campbell
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