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Illustrated Account of Goryeo

The Illustrated Account of Goryeo (Gaoli tujing, 高麗圖經) is a 40-volume report on the Goryeo kingdom written in 1124 by Xu Jing, a Song envoy to Korea.

Illustrated Chronicle (Litsevoi letopisnyi svod)

The Illustrated Chronicle (Лицевой летописный свод) is a monumental illuminated chronicle of world and Russian history, commissioned by Ivan the Terrible in 1568–1576 and decorated with thousands of miniatures.

Illustrated Sutra of Cause and Effect

The Illustrated Sutra of Cause and Effect (e-ingakyō) is a Japanese illustrated handscroll of the Buddha's life; its Nara-period examples are the oldest surviving emaki in Japan.

Illustrating Middle-earth

Illustrating Middle-earth: the art tradition depicting Tolkien's world, from the author's own 1937 Hobbit pictures and Pauline Baynes to Alan Lee, John Howe, Ted Nasmith, calendars, card games, and Jackson's films.

Illustration

Illustration is the art of creating pictures that explain, interpret, or visually support an idea or story, typically appearing in books, magazines, posters, and films.

Illustrious

Illustrious is a family of open-weights text-to-image models for anime and illustration, built on Stable Diffusion XL by OnomaAI Research, first trained in May 2024 on the Danbooru2023 dataset.

Illustrious-class aircraft carrier

The Illustrious class was a class of four fleet aircraft carriers built for the British Royal Navy, the first in any navy with fully armored hangars.

Illustris

Illustris is a suite of large cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation, run with the moving-mesh code Arepo and completed in late 2013, producing about 40,000 well-resolved galaxies in a box 106.5 megaparsecs on a side.

IllustrisTNG

IllustrisTNG ("The Next Generation") is a series of large cosmological magnetohydrodynamical simulations of galaxy formation, run with the moving-mesh code Arepo as the successor to Illustris.

Illuzion

Illuzion is a large multi-room nightclub on Bangla Road in Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand, opened in 2014 in a former shopping mall and ranked No. 9 in DJ Mag's Top 100 Clubs.

Illy

Illy (illycaffè S.p.A.) is an Italian coffee company founded in Trieste in 1933 by Francesco Illy, known for the Illetta espresso machine, pressurized coffee packing, the first commercial coffee pods, a nine-variety 100% Arabica blend, and B Corp certification since 2021.

Illya Kuryakin

Illya Kuryakin (Illya Nickovetch Kuryakin) is the fictional Soviet agent of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., played by David McCallum 1964–1968 and Armie Hammer in 2015; a minor role that became a co-lead and teen heartthrob.

Illyria

Illyria: classical region on the eastern Adriatic, home of the Illyrians (Ἰλλυρίοι), later Rome's province Illyricum, predecessor of Dalmatia and Pannonia; three Illyrian wars, 229–168 BC, and a language known only from names.

Illyrian movement

The Illyrian movement (ilirski pokret), also called the Croatian National Revival, was a Croatian national and cultural movement led by Ljudevit Gaj from 1835 to 1848.

Illyrian Provinces

The Illyrian Provinces (French: Provinces Illyriennes) were territories on the eastern Adriatic ruled by Napoleonic France from 1809 to 1813, formed from lands ceded by Austria, with its capital at Ljubljana.

Illyrians

Illyrians: ancient Balkan peoples of the eastern Adriatic coast (southern Slovenia to northwest Greece), named by Greek writers from the 5th century BC; Illyrian kingdom to 167 BC, then Roman Illyricum; language unattested by inscriptions.

Illyricum (Croatia)

Illyricum, the Roman province covering present-day Croatia and neighboring Balkan lands, capital Salonae; divided into Dalmatia and Pannonia, with the division's date contested between AD 6-9 and the Flavians.

Illyrikon Regio

Illyrikon Regio, a regio on Jupiter's moon Io near the south pole, IAU-approved 1997, about 750–1,000 km across; named from Io's mythological wanderings and site of 2024 Juno-observed eruptions.

Ilma (crater on Callisto)

Ilma is a 102-km-wide impact crater on Jupiter's moon Callisto at 29.9°S, 167.2°W, named in 1988 after a Finnish celestial divinity of air; it also names the USGS Jc-12 quadrangle map.

Ilmarë (moon)

Ilmarë is the large satellite of the trans-Neptunian object Varda, discovered in 2009 in Hubble images and named in 2014 after a handmaid of Varda in Tolkien's mythology.

Ilmari Juutilainen

Ilmari Juutilainen, also known as Eino Ilmari Juutilainen, was a Finnish fighter pilot and top Finnish ace of World War II, credited with 94 confirmed victories.

Ilmari Salminen

Ilmari Salminen (1902–1986), Finnish long-distance runner, 10,000 m Olympic champion at Berlin 1936 (30:15.4), world record holder 30:05.6 in 1937, and two-time European 10,000 m champion (1934, 1938).

Ilmari Vesamaa

Ilmari Vesamaa (1893–1973) was a Finnish track and field athlete of Viipurin Reipas who competed at the 1920 Antwerp Olympics as a non-scoring member of Finland's gold-winning cross-country team.

Ilmatar Corona

Ilmatar Corona: a 110-km-wide corona (volcano-tectonic feature) on Venus at 34.30°N, 25.00°E, quadrangle V-08; IAU-approved 2003, named for the Finnish sky goddess Ilmatar, creator of the world.

Ilme Schlichting

Ilme Schlichting, born 1960 in Kiel, is a German biophysicist known for time-resolved crystallography and director at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research since 2002.

Ilmenite

Ilmenite is a black, weakly magnetic iron titanium oxide mineral, FeTiO₃, and the world's principal ore of titanium, named after Russia's Ilmen Mountains in 1827.

Ilmiye

The Ilmiye was the religious-legal officialdom of the Ottoman state, one of three professional groups with the military and bureaucracy, staffing courts, schools, and religious services from the early Ottoman period until 1924.

ILO fundamental labour conventions

The ILO fundamental labor conventions are International Labour Organization treaties covering freedom of association, forced labor, child labor, discrimination, and workplace safety, binding all member states whether or not they ratify.

Ilo power station

The Ilo power station is a group of thermal power plants at the port of Ilo in southern Peru, originally built to supply SPCC's copper operations.

Ilocano language

Ilocano (Pagsasao nga Ilokano, Iloko) is a Northern Luzon Austronesian language of the Philippines, third most spoken nationally with about 9-11 million speakers; lingua franca of northern Luzon, agglutinative, written in Kur-itan and Latin scripts.