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Icelandic horse

Icelandic horse (íslenski hesturinn): purebred gaited riding horse from Iceland with five gaits including tölt and pace, isolated by import bans since the late 19th century, about 78,000 in Iceland and 195,000 abroad.

Icelandic króna

The Icelandic króna (plural krónur) is the currency of Iceland, issued solely by the Central Bank of Iceland since 1961; it collapsed in 2008 and floated with capital controls until 2017.

Icelandic language

Icelandic (íslenska) is the official North Germanic national language of Iceland, descended from Old Norse brought by Norwegian settlers around 900; the most conservative Scandinavian language, with four-case noun inflection, minimal dialects, and a purist neologism policy.

Icelandic Literary Society

The Icelandic Literary Society (Hið íslenska bókmenntafélag) is an Icelandic scholarly society and book publisher founded in Copenhagen in 1816 at the initiative of the linguist Rasmus Rask.

Icelandic Literature Prize

The Icelandic Literature Prize (Íslensku bókmenntaverðlaunin) is an annual award for original Icelandic books, founded in 1989 by the Association of Icelandic Publishers and presented by the President of Iceland at Bessastaðir.

Icelandic Low

The Icelandic Low is a semi-permanent area of low atmospheric pressure over the subpolar North Atlantic, centered between Iceland and southern Greenland, strongest in winter.

Icelandic modernism

Icelandic modernism is the modernist movement in Icelandic literature and art, with early experiments in the 1920s and its breakthrough in poetry around 1950 and prose in the 1960s.

Icelandic name

Icelandic name: given name plus a patronymic or matronymic (-son/-dóttir) from a parent's genitive, not an inherited family name; family names banned for new adoption since 1925, with -bur for neutral gender registration.

Icelandic national costume

Þjóðbúningurinn, the Icelandic national costume, is a family of traditional dress styles: five women's costumes (faldbúningur, peysuföt, upphlutur, skautbúningur, kyrtill) and two men's variants, worn on June 17 and at formal occasions.

Icelandic orthography

Icelandic orthography: the Latin-alphabet writing system of Icelandic with ten extra letters (þ, ð, æ, ö, accented vowels), governed by the etymological principle, codified in the 19th century and by the 2016/2018 official spelling rules.

Icelandic Phallological Museum

Icelandic Phallological Museum (Hið Íslenzka Reðasafn), Reykjavík's penis museum, founded 1997 by Sigurður Hjartarson from a 1974 bull pizzle joke; nearly 300 specimens from almost every Icelandic mammal, first human penis 2011.

Iceman (album)

ICEMAN, released May 15, 2026 by OVO/Republic, is Drake's ninth studio album and first solo set since 2023, arriving with surprise companions HABIBTI and MAID OF HONOUR, debuting atop the Billboard 200 with 463,000 units.

Iceman (Marvel Comics)

Iceman (Bobby Drake, Robert Louis Drake) is a Marvel Comics superhero and omega-level mutant who creates and manipulates ice; an original X-Man created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, debuting in X-Men #1 (1963), and revealed as gay in 2015.

IceMole

IceMole is a maneuverable subsurface probe that combines thermal melting with mechanical drilling, developed at FH Aachen in Germany around 2010 for clean sampling of ice and subglacial water.

Iceni

The Iceni, also spelled Eceni, were an Iron Age Celtic tribe of eastern Britain occupying Norfolk and north-west Suffolk, best known for Queen Boudica's revolt against Roman rule in 60/61 AD.

İçerde

İçerde is a Turkish action thriller series that aired on Show TV from 2016 to 2017, following two brothers raised on opposite sides of the law.

Icertis

Icertis is a privately held American software company in Bellevue, Washington, founded in 2009, whose ICI platform uses AI for contract lifecycle management and is used by a third of the Fortune 100.

ICESat-2

ICESat-2, the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2, is a NASA satellite launched in 2018 that measures the height of ice sheets, sea ice, and forests from orbit.

Icewind Dale

Icewind Dale (2000) is a Black Isle Studios party-based D&D RPG on the Infinity Engine, set in the Forgotten Realms' frozen north, combat-focused with a six-character player-created party; Beamdog's Enhanced Edition followed in 2014.

ICF syndrome

ICF syndrome, or immunodeficiency, centromeric instability, and facial anomalies syndrome, is a rare autosomal recessive immunodeficiency first described in 1978, marked by low antibody levels, characteristic facial features, and instability of chromosomes 1 and 16.

Icg Centre Street Partnership

Icg Centre Street Partnership is a pooled private equity fund organized as a Delaware limited partnership in 2015 and administered from St. Helier, Jersey, in the Channel Islands.

Icg Europe

ICG Europe is the European buyout and structured-capital fund franchise of Intermediate Capital Group, a London-listed asset manager, whose Fund IX closed at €12bn in 2026.

Icg North American Credit Partners

ICG North American Credit Partners is the North American private debt platform of asset manager Intermediate Capital Group, established in 2014 and led from New York by Brian Spenner.

ICG Strategic Equity

ICG Strategic Equity is the GP-led secondaries investment strategy of London-listed Intermediate Capital Group, founded in 2014; its fifth fund closed at $11 billion in 2025.

Icg Strategic Secondaries

ICG Strategic Secondaries was the private equity secondaries strategy of Intermediate Capital Group, specializing in fund restructurings and GP-led liquidity solutions from 2014 until 2017.

Ich bin ein Berliner

"Ich bin ein Berliner": closing line of John F. Kennedy's June 26, 1963 Cold War solidarity speech at Schöneberg City Hall, West Berlin, before roughly 450,000 people; the "jelly doughnut" misreading is a myth.

ICH E9: Statistical Principles for Clinical Trials

ICH E9 is the International Council for Harmonisation guideline setting statistical principles for clinical trial design, analysis, and interpretation; its 2019 addendum E9(R1) added the estimand framework.

ICH Q2(R2)

ICH Q2(R2) is the harmonized ICH guideline Validation of Analytical Procedures, reaching Step 4 in November 2023 as a complete revision of Q2(R1) from 2005.

Ichabod Crane

Ichabod Crane is the lanky, superstitious Yankee schoolmaster of Washington Irving's 1820 tale 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' (Sketch Book), rival of Brom Bones, victim of the Headless Horseman, possibly modeled on Jesse Merwin or named for Col. Ichabod B. Crane.

ICHAD syndrome

ICHAD syndrome (Immunodysregulation, Craniofacial anomalies, Hearing impairment, Athelia, Developmental delay) is a rare autosomal dominant IKZF2 disorder from de novo dominant negative HELIOS zinc finger variants, causing immune dysregulation with developmental features.