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Imperial Russian Geographical Society
The Imperial Russian Geographical Society (Императорское Русское географическое общество) was a learned society founded in Saint Petersburg in 1845 under Nicholas I, known for expeditions by Przhevalsky and Miklouho-Maclay.
Imperial Russian Navy
The Imperial Russian Navy (Российский императорский флот) was the navy of the Russian Empire, founded by Tsar Peter I in 1696 and by the early 1800s the world's third largest.
Imperial Secretariat (Shangshu)
The Imperial Secretariat (尚书台, shangshu-tai) was the Han dynasty office inside the palace that received and drafted the emperor's documents, becoming the actual center of government by the Eastern Han.
Imperial St Petersburg Academy of Sciences
The Imperial St Petersburg Academy of Sciences (Императорская Санкт-Петербургская академия наук) was the state scientific institution of the Russian Empire, founded in St Petersburg by Peter I in 1724.
Imperial State Crown
The Imperial State Crown, or Crown of State, is the crown the British monarch exchanges for St Edward's Crown at the end of the coronation and wears to the State Opening of Parliament.
Imperial Sword
The Imperial Sword (German: Reichsschwert) is one of the ceremonial swords of the Imperial Regalia of the Holy Roman Empire, kept in the Imperial Treasury in Vienna.
Imperial Tea and Horse Agency
The Imperial Tea and Horse Agency (都大提举茶马司) was the Song dynasty government office that ran the tea monopoly and exchanged tea for warhorses from frontier peoples.
Imperial Ten Surnames of the Tuoba
The Imperial Ten Surnames of the Tuoba (帝室十姓) were ten related clans that Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei gave Chinese-style surnames in a decree of 495, changing the imperial clan's name to Yuan.
Imperial Theatre
Imperial Theatre names several venues: the Shuberts' 1923 Broadway musical house at 249 West 45th Street (1,445 seats), the 1913 National Historic Site in Saint John, New Brunswick, and theatres in Augusta, Sarnia, Walsall, Ottawa, Vancouver, and Philadelphia.
Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (明清皇家陵寝), serial UNESCO World Heritage site in China inscribed 2000, extended 2003 and 2004, covering Ming and Qing imperial mausolea in five provinces built 1368–1915.
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914–1917), or Endurance expedition, was Shackleton's failed attempt at the first land crossing of Antarctica; Endurance was crushed in the Weddell Sea, but all 28 Weddell party men survived.
Imperial units
Imperial units, also called the British Imperial System, are the weights and measures established by the British Weights and Measures Act 1824, replacing varied local measures across the British Empire.
Imperial University of Peking
The Imperial University of Peking (京师大学堂) was the Qing dynasty's national university, founded in 1898 as the flagship of the Hundred Days' Reform and managed by Sun Jianai.
Imperial University Ordinance
The Imperial University Ordinance (帝国大学令) was an 1886 imperial edict of Meiji Japan that reorganized Tokyo University into the state-directed Imperial University, with a graduate school and five colleges.
Imperial War Museum
Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum group founded in 1917, covering conflicts involving Britain and the Commonwealth since the First World War across five branches: IWM London, IWM North, IWM Duxford, Churchill War Rooms, and HMS Belfast.
Imperial War Museums
Imperial War Museums is a British national museum organization founded in 1917, operating five branches including IWM London, IWM Duxford, HMS Belfast, and Churchill War Rooms.
Imperial Way Faction
The Imperial Way Faction (皇道派, Kōdōha) was a faction of the Imperial Japanese Army led by Generals Araki Sadao and Mazaki Jinzaburō, destroyed after 1936.
Imperial, royal and noble ranks
Imperial, royal and noble ranks, also called noble ranks, are the graded titles ordering monarchs, their families, and nobility, a system rooted in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
ImperialHal
ImperialHal (Phillip Dosen, born 1999) is an American Apex Legends pro, nicknamed The CEO, who played for TSM 2019-2024, now Team Falcons, with titles including the 2023 ALGS Championship and ALGS Open 2025.
Imperialism
Imperialism: the policy of extending a state's rule over foreign societies to build or maintain an empire, by territorial acquisition or economic and political control. Also called the Hobson-Lenin theory in its classical economic form; peaked in the late 19th-century division of Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.
Imperialist competitive algorithm
The imperialist competitive algorithm is a population-based metaheuristic for optimization, introduced in 2007, in which candidate solutions called countries form empires that compete and assimilate until one remains.
Imperially Sanctioned Regulations for Schools (1902)
The Imperially Sanctioned Regulations for Schools (钦定学堂章程), or Renyin school system, were statutes drafted by Zhang Baixi and promulgated in 1902, the first school system a Chinese central government issued.
Imperially Sanctioned Regulations of the Board of Rites (Qinding Libu zeli)
The Imperially Sanctioned Regulations of the Board of Rites (钦定礼部则例) is a Qing dynasty administrative code of regulations for state ritual, issued in 202 juan.
Imperiex
Imperiex (Imperiex-Prime) is a DC Comics cosmic villain, the embodiment of entropy in a giant armor, who debuted in Superman #153 (February 2000) and headlined the 2001 'Our Worlds at War' crossover, destroyed by an alliance of heroes and villains.
Imperium
Imperium was the supreme executive power of the Roman state, distinct from the lesser potestas, held by consuls, praetors, and dictators, and covering military command and the death penalty.
Imperium (2016 film)
Imperium (2016) is an American thriller directed by Daniel Ragussis, starring Daniel Radcliffe as FBI agent Nate Foster undercover in white supremacist groups, based on former agent Michael German's cases; 84% Rotten Tomatoes, limited Lionsgate Premiere release.
Imperium (professional wrestling)
Imperium was a WWE villainous wrestling stable led by Gunther (formerly WALTER) with Ludwig Kaiser, Giovanni Vinci, Marcel Barthel, Fabian Aichner, and Alexander Wolfe, formed in NXT UK in 2019 from the wXw group Ringkampf and disbanded in late 2024.
Impermanence
Impermanence (Sanskrit anitya, Pali anicca) is the Buddhist doctrine that all conditioned phenomena arise, change, and cease; one of the three marks of existence, radicalized into momentariness by Abhidharma schools and paralleled by Heraclitus's flux.
Imperva
Imperva is an American-Israeli cybersecurity company founded in 2002 as WebCohort by Shlomo Kramer, best known for its web application firewall and DDoS protection, and part of Thales since 2023.
Impetigo
Impetigo (pyoderma) is a contagious superficial bacterial skin infection caused by Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes, or both, occurring mainly in children aged 2 to 5, with honey-crusted lesions treated by topical or oral antibiotics.