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Iceberg lettuce

Iceberg lettuce, also called crisphead (Lactuca sativa var. capitata), is a tight-headed, 95%-water lettuce named for ice-cooled rail shipping. Lower in nutrients than romaine; linked to the record 2026 U.S. Cyclospora outbreak.

Oct 26, 2026

Iceberg REST catalog specification

The Iceberg REST catalog specification is an OpenAPI-defined HTTP protocol in Apache Iceberg for talking to any Iceberg catalog: config, namespaces, tables, commits, credentials, scan planning. One client works with any compliant server like Polaris or Glue.

Iceberg Slim

Iceberg Slim, pen name of Robert Beck (born Robert Lee Maupin, 1918–1992), Chicago ex-pimp turned author whose 1967 Holloway House memoir Pimp founded street lit and shaped hip-hop.

Iceberg theory

Iceberg theory, or theory of omission: Ernest Hemingway's writing principle from Death in the Afternoon (1932) that a knowledgeable writer may omit known material and readers will still feel it, unlike unrelated economic or psychological iceberg models.

Icebox

Icebox: insulated wooden cabinet, tin or zinc lined, cooled by a delivered block of ice in its top compartment; the non-mechanical predecessor of the electric refrigerator, replaced in US homes mainly after the 1927 GE Monitor-top.

Icebreaker

An icebreaker is a ship whose reinforced, spoon-shaped bow rides up onto ice and fractures it under the vessel's own weight, keeping channels and harbors open for other ships.

Icecap

Icecap (ice cap): a dome-shaped glacier mass under 50,000 km² flowing radially, distinct from ice sheets and ice fields; examples include Vatnajökull, Austfonna, and the Severny Island ice cap; Arctic ice caps lose 150–300 Gt of ice yearly.

Icecap depression

Icecap depression: gazetteer term (GeoNames code DPRG) for a comparatively depressed area on an icecap surface; classified under ice masses, distinct from isostatic bedrock depression beneath ice sheets.

Icecap dome

Icecap dome (ice dome): the dome-shaped central crest of an ice cap or ice sheet, from which ice flows outward in all directions; ice caps stay under 50,000 square kilometers, ice sheets only Greenland and Antarctica.

Icecap ridge

An icecap ridge is an elongated crest of ice on a dome-shaped ice cap, such as the Academy of Sciences Ice Cap. It is formed by central flows or glacial till.

IceCube Hot Water Drill

The IceCube Hot Water Drill, formally the Enhanced Hot Water Drill (EHWD), is a 5-megawatt hot-water drilling system built at the University of Wisconsin–Madison to melt boreholes for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole.

IceCube Neutrino Observatory

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, also called IceCube, is a cubic-kilometer particle detector in Antarctic ice at the South Pole that detected the first astrophysical neutrinos in 2013.

IceCube-Gen2

IceCube-Gen2 is a planned extension of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, expanding the detector to 8 cubic kilometers of ice with optical, radio, and surface arrays.

Iced coffee

Iced coffee is coffee brewed hot and served cold over ice, distinct from cold brew. Origins include the 1840s Algerian mazagran and an 1887 US recipe; today one in three out-of-home coffees worldwide is ordered cold.

Iced Earth

Iced Earth, also known early on as The Rose and Purgatory, is an American power/thrash metal band from Tampa, Florida, founded by Jon Schaffer; active 1988-2021, known for the Something Wicked concept albums and vocalists Barlow, Owens, and Block.

Iced tea

Iced tea, tea served cold over ice, is an American staple popularized by Richard Blechynden at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair; about four-fifths of US tea consumption is iced, led by ready-to-drink brands like Pure Leaf and AriZona.

Icefall (film)

Icefall is a 2025 action thriller directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, starring Joel Kinnaman, Cara Jade Myers, Danny Huston, and Graham Greene. An Indigenous game warden and a poacher fight criminals over $20 million from a plane crashed in a frozen lake; released November 4, 2025.

Icefin

Icefin is a torpedo-shaped underwater robot developed by Britney Schmidt's team at Georgia Tech and Cornell, lowered through boreholes to explore the ocean beneath Antarctic ice shelves, including Thwaites Glacier.

Iceflake Studios

Iceflake Studios is a Finnish video game developer in Tampere, founded in 2007, owned by Paradox Interactive since 2020 and known for Surviving the Aftermath.

Icehouse (band)

Icehouse, formerly Flowers, is an Australian new wave and synthpop band formed in Sydney in 1977 by Iva Davies; renamed after its 1980 debut album to avoid the Scottish band The Flowers. Known for Great Southern Land, Crazy, and Electric Blue, and the seven-times-platinum 1987 album Man of Colours.

Iceland

Iceland (Ísland), North Atlantic parliamentary republic founded 17 June 1944; population about 394,000. Althingi parliament since 930; nearly 100% renewable electricity (hydro and geothermal); economy driven by fisheries, aluminium, and tourism; voters rejected resuming EU accession talks in 2026.

Iceland - Jan Mayen

Iceland - Jan Mayen, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 401 (Polar freshwaters), pairs Iceland with the Norwegian volcanic island Jan Mayen; known for endemic Thingvallavatn charr, glacial rivers, and scarce Jan Mayen fresh water.

Iceland (supermarket)

Iceland Foods Ltd is a British frozen-food supermarket chain founded in 1970 by Malcolm Walker in Oswestry, Shropshire, headquartered in Deeside, Wales. Distinguished by its frozen focus, The Food Warehouse format, 2.2% UK grocery share, family ownership, and its 2026 dropped trademark dispute with the country Iceland.