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Imroz (painter)

Imroz (ਇਮਰੋਜ਼), born Inderjeet Singh (1926–2023), was an Indian painter, illustrator, calligrapher, and poet from Lyallpur, lifelong partner of writer Amrita Pritam and artist of her magazine Nagmani.

Imru al-Qays

Imru al-Qays (امرؤ القيس) was an Arabian poet of the Kindite royal house, son of Hujr, and author of one of the seven Mu'allaqat of pre-Islamic Arabia.

Imru Haile Selassie

Imru Haile Selassie (ዕምሩ ኃይለ ሥላሴ, 1892–1980) was an Ethiopian noble and soldier who commanded armies against Fascist Italy in 1935 and later served as regent and ambassador.

Imru' al-Qays ibn Amr

Imru' al-Qays ibn Amr (امرؤ القيس بن عمرو) was, by the conventional account, a Lakhmid ruler of al-Hira in Iraq, son of the dynasty's founder 'Amr ibn 'Adi.

IMS Health

IMS Health was an American healthcare analytics company founded in 1954 that collected prescription and sales data for drugmakers, merging into Quintiles in 2016 to form IQVIA.

IMS Nanofabrication

IMS Nanofabrication GmbH is an Austrian manufacturer of multi-beam electron-beam mask writers used to pattern photomasks for advanced chips, founded in Vienna in 1985 and majority-owned by Intel since 2015.

IMSAI 8080

The IMSAI 8080 was an early microcomputer built by IMS Associates of San Leandro, California, released in 1975 and regarded as the first microcomputer clone of the Altair 8800.

Imsai Arasan 23am Pulikesi

Imsai Arasan 23am Pulikesi (இம்சை அரசன் 23ம் புலிகேசி), also Imsai Arasan 23rd Pulikecei, is a 2006 Tamil historical-comedy film directed by Chimbu Deven, produced by Shankar, starring Vadivelu in his first lead dual role; it satirizes 18th-century royal politics and grossed Rs 15 crore on Rs 5 crore.

Imsbach

Imsbach, a village of about 1,000 people on the southern slope of the Donnersberg in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; former mining village (Bergmannsdorf) with iron mining from Roman times, copper, silver, and cobalt from the 15th century, mining ended in the 1920s, now a mining heritage site with visitor mines Weiße Grube and Grube Maria.

IMSI-catcher

An IMSI-catcher, also known as a cell-site simulator or StingRay, is a device that impersonates a legitimate cell tower so nearby mobile phones connect to it and reveal their unique subscriber identity, enabling tracking.

Imsidolimab

Imsidolimab (ANB019) is a humanized IgG4 monoclonal antibody antagonist of the interleukin-36 receptor developed by AnaptysBio and licensed to Vanda Pharmaceuticals, tested in phase 2 GALLOP and phase 3 GEMINI-1/2 trials for generalized pustular psoriasis, with a US BLA under review.

IMSIII trial

IMSIII (Interventional Management of Stroke III, NCT00359424) was a phase 3 randomized trial of endovascular therapy plus IV t-PA versus IV t-PA alone in acute ischemic stroke; stopped for futility at 656 patients, it showed no 90-day outcome benefit (40.8% vs 38.7% mRS 0-2).

Imsouane

Imsouane, Morocco fishing village between Agadir and Essaouira in Souss-Massa, famous for The Bay, a 500–800 m right-hand point break among Africa's longest, plus the Cathedral and Reef surf spots.

Imst

Imst (oppidum humiste, first recorded 763) is a town and district seat in Tyrol, Austria, at 827 m with about 11,165 inhabitants; a Roman Via Claudia Augusta station, medieval mining and market town, home of Tyrol's tallest church tower.

Imsu

Imsu (Imšu) was, according to the Assyrian King List, the seventh of seventeen early "kings who lived in tents", named between Mandaru and Harsu, with no recorded reign length.

Imsul Peasant Uprising

The Imsul Peasant Uprising (임술 민란) was an 1862 Korean peasant revolt against corrupt officials and the disordered Three Taxes, spreading to about 70 counties nationwide.

IMT-2000

IMT-2000 (International Mobile Telecommunications-2000) is the International Telecommunication Union's umbrella designation for third-generation (3G) mobile systems, a family of standards using the nominal 2 GHz band and deployed around the year 2000.

Imta

Imta, also given as Nibia, was a Gutian ruler of the late 3rd millennium BC, named in later tradition as the first Gutian king ruling in Sumer.

Imtiaz Ali (director)

Imtiaz Ali (born 1971, Jamshedpur) is an Indian Hindi-film director, screenwriter and producer of Jab We Met, Rockstar, Highway, Tamasha and Netflix's Amar Singh Chamkila; debut Socha Na Tha (2005). Distinct from the Pakistani singer and from Dubai developer Imtiaz Developments.

IMU Biosciences

IMU Biosciences is a London-based biotechnology company founded in 2021 by Adam Laing, Tom Hayday, and Mario Cantero, applying high-resolution immune profiling to precision medicine and raising $60 million to date.

Imus

Imus (Lungsod ng Imus) is a component city and de jure capital of Cavite, Philippines, with 481,949 residents (2024). Known as the Flag Capital of the Philippines for the 1898 Battle of Alapan, it became a city in 2012 under RA 10161.

Imus Pyreneus

Imus Pyreneus (Imus Pyrenaeus) was a Roman mansio at Saint-Jean-le-Vieux (Donazaharre), Lower Navarre, on the Antonine Itinerary road from Astorga to Bordeaux, below the Summus Pyrenaeus pass at Ibañeta, with baths, warehouses, and recent gold-ring finds.

Imvax, Inc.

Imvax, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Philadelphia, spun out of Thomas Jefferson University in 2015, developing the personalized cell therapy IGV-001 for glioblastoma.

IMViC

IMViC: four biochemical tests, indole, methyl red, Voges-Proskauer, and citrate, used to differentiate Enterobacteriaceae; E. coli is ++−−, Enterobacter aerogenes −−++.

Imvo Zabantsundu

Imvo Zabantsundu (isiXhosa for "African Opinion") is a weekly newspaper founded by John Tengo Jabavu in King William's Town in 1884, the first in South Africa owned by black citizens.

IMVU

IMVU (Instant Messaging within a Virtual Universe) is a 3D avatar-based social platform launched in 2004, with 7 million monthly active users, 400,000+ chat rooms, a 60-million-item catalog, and a user creator economy.

IMx

IMx, formerly Immature, was a Los Angeles R&B trio of Marques Houston, Jerome Jones, and Kelton Kessee, formed by Chris Stokes; hits "Never Lie" and "Stay the Night"; disbanded 2002.

Imyremeshaw

Imyremeshaw, whose throne name was Semenkhkare, was a king of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, dated to about 1759 BC and known chiefly from the Turin King List.

In & Out (film)

In & Out is a 1997 American comedy directed by Frank Oz, starring Kevin Kline as a small-town Indiana teacher publicly outed as gay days before his wedding.

In a Better World

In a Better World (Danish: Hævnen, "Revenge") is Susanne Bier's 2010 Danish drama about a doctor split between Denmark and an African refugee camp; it won the 2011 Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.