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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (1985, Harper & Row) is Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond's circular-tale picture book that launched the If You Give... series, distinguished by its cause-and-effect chain, 45-million-copy series sales, and classroom use.

If You Hadn't Been There

"If You Hadn't Been There": Dolly Parton country ballad single, also staged as "I Wouldn't Be Here If You Hadn't Been There" for Dolly: An Original Musical. Released March 2025 for her late husband Carl Dean; hit No. 1 on Billboard Country Digital Song Sales.

If You Leave Me Now

"If You Leave Me Now" is a 1976 Chicago soft rock ballad from Chicago X, written and sung by Peter Cetera. It became Chicago's first Billboard Hot 100 #1, its sole UK #1, and won two 1977 Grammys.

If You Want Blood You've Got It

If You Want Blood You've Got It is AC/DC's first live album and the only one with singer Bon Scott, recorded April 30, 1978 at the Glasgow Apollo on the Powerage tour, released October 1978, peaking at UK No. 13.

If You Wish Upon Me (당신이 소원을 말하면)

If You Wish Upon Me (당신이 소원을 말하면) is a 2022 KBS2 Korean healing drama, 16 episodes, starring Ji Chang-wook, Sung Dong-il, and Choi Soo-young as hospice volunteers granting dying patients' last wishes, inspired by a Dutch wish foundation.

If You're Reading This It's Too Late

If You're Reading This It's Too Late is Drake's surprise commercial mixtape, released February 12, 2015 via Cash Money; 17 tracks, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 495,000 first-week copies.

If—

If— is Rudyard Kipling's 1895–96 didactic poem, published in Rewards and Fairies (1910) after "Brother Square-Toes", inspired by Leander Starr Jameson: 32 lines, four octaves, one sentence of paternal advice ending "you'll be a Man, my son!".

If....

If.... is Lindsay Anderson's 1968 British satire starring Malcolm McDowell as rebel schoolboy Mick Travis at an English public school; it won the 1969 Palme d'Or at Cannes and spawned O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital.

If/Then

If/Then is a 2014 original Broadway musical by Tom Kitt (music) and Brian Yorkey (book and lyrics), directed by Michael Greif, showing city planner Elizabeth's two parallel lives as Liz and Beth after a single park choice; it ran at the Richard Rodgers Theatre and later toured.

Ifá

Ifá is the Yoruba divination system of Orunmila, cast by babalawo with ikin palm nuts or the opele chain, reading one of 256 odu and reciting ese verses; UNESCO-inscribed 2008, practiced in Nigeria, Benin, Cuba, and Brazil.

IFA-2

IFA-2, the second France–Great Britain interconnector, is a 1,000 MW high-voltage direct current link between Tourbe in Normandy and Chilling in Hampshire, developed by National Grid and RTE and in commercial operation since January 2021.

Ifakara

Ifakara: town and district headquarters in Kilombero District, Morogoro Region, south-central Tanzania, on the Kilombero floodplain and TAZARA Railway; home of the Ifakara Health Institute malaria research centre; 290,424 council population (2022).

Ifan E. L. Stephens

Ifan E. L. Stephens is a professor of electrochemistry at Imperial College London, known for oxygen reduction catalysts in fuel cells, benchmarking iridium dissolution, and lithium-mediated ammonia synthesis.

IFC (American TV channel)

IFC, originally the Independent Film Channel, is an American basic cable channel launched in September 1994 by Rainbow Media, now owned by AMC Networks. It went commercial-free indie films to ads in 2010, comedy rebrand in 2014, and sitcom reruns today.

IFC Global Infrastructure Fund

IFC Global Infrastructure Fund is a private equity fund investing in emerging-market infrastructure, managed by the International Finance Corporation, which closed at $1.2 billion in 2013.

IFC Performance Standards

The IFC Performance Standards are eight environmental and social standards, adopted in 2006 and updated in 2012, that the International Finance Corporation requires clients to apply to financed projects.

Ife art

Ife art is the sculptural tradition of Ilé-Ifẹ̀ in south-western Nigeria, known for naturalistic terracotta and copper-alloy heads made between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries.

Ife bronze casting

Ife bronze casting is the lost-wax casting of naturalistic brass and copper heads at the Yoruba sacred city of Ife, Nigeria, between roughly the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.

Ife bronze head

An Ife bronze head is a naturalistic life-size human head cast in copper alloy at Ilé-Ifẹ̀, Nigeria, between the 12th and 15th centuries, mostly unearthed in 1938.

Ife bronze heads

The Ife bronze heads are naturalistic brass and copper portrait heads cast at Ife in southwestern Nigeria between roughly the 12th and 15th centuries, most unearthed at Wunmonije Compound in 1938.

Ife glass bead production

Ife glass bead production was an indigenous glassmaking and beadmaking industry at the Igbo Olokun workshop in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, active from the eleventh to fifteenth centuries AD.

Ife Head

The Ife Head is a brass head of a ruler cast by the lost-wax technique at Ife, Nigeria, mostly dated between 1300 and 1450 and held by the British Museum.

Ife heads

The Ife heads are naturalistic sculptures of human heads made in the Yoruba city of Ilé-Ifẹ̀, Nigeria, chiefly between 1200 and 1400 CE in cast copper alloy and terracotta.

Ife terracotta heads

Ife terracotta heads are naturalistic sculptures of human heads modeled in fired clay at Ilé-Ifẹ̀ in southwestern Nigeria, produced mainly between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.

Ifeanyi Ndukwe

Ifeanyi-Arthur Ndukwe, Austrian center-back born 2008 in Vienna; ex-Austria Wien, signed by Liverpool for €3 million in 2026, loaned to Levante UD because post-Brexit GBE rules deny him a UK work permit.

Ifebemtinib

Ifebemtinib (IN10018, BI 853520) is an oral, ATP-competitive FAK (PTK2) inhibitor developed by Boehringer Ingelheim and now InxMed, in Phase III for platinum-resistant ovarian cancer and combined with KRAS G12C inhibitors.

IFEMA Exhibition Centre

The IFEMA Exhibition Centre (Recinto Ferial de Madrid, also called Feria de Madrid) is Madrid's trade fair complex, offering 200,000 m² in 13 halls since 1991.

Ifenprodil

Ifenprodil (イフェンプロジル) is a synthetic phenylethanolamine drug marketed in Japan and France as a cerebral vasodilator, and the first subunit-selective NMDA receptor antagonist, identified in 1993.

Iferanserin

Iferanserin (MPEC, MSA-100, VEN 309) is a peripheral 5-HT2A receptor antagonist developed as a 0.5% intra-anal ointment for internal hemorrhoids; its Phase 3 trial failed and development was discontinued in June 2012.

IFEval (Instruction Following Evaluation)

IFEval, or Instruction Following Evaluation, is a Google Research benchmark released in November 2023 with 541 prompts checking whether large language models follow verifiable formatting and constraint instructions.