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Inca stonemasonry
Inca stonemasonry is the mortarless cut-stone building tradition of the Inca Empire, whose granite and andesite walls fit so tightly that a knife blade will not enter the joint.
Inca succession
Inca succession was the process by which a new Sapa Inca took power in the Inca Empire, with no fixed rule and each heir contested among royal lineages.
Inca tern
Inca tern (Larosterna inca, zarcillo), a Near Threatened Humboldt Current seabird, sole species of Larosterna, ranging northern Peru to central Chile, breeding in crevices and old penguin burrows, hit by El Niño breeding failures and anchovy overfishing.
Inca Trail to Machu Picchu
The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu (Camino Inka) is a regulated 4-day, ~43 km trek in Cusco, Peru, on original Qhapaq Ñan paving, crossing Warmi Wañusqa at 4,215 m, permit-limited to 500 users/day, closed each February, ending at the Sun Gate.
Inca tunic
The Inca tunic, called uncu in the Inca language, was the shirtlike primary garment of Inca men in the Andes, woven as one rectangle of tapestry cloth with a neck slit.
Inca Urco
Inca Urco (Inka Urqu) was a son of Emperor Viracocha Inca, briefly heir or ruler in Cuzco before being deposed in favor of his brother Pachacuti.
Inca–Chiriguano wars
The Inca–Chiriguano wars were conflicts fought from the late 15th century into the 1530s between the Inca Empire and Guaraní-speaking Chiriguano raiders on Bolivia's southeastern frontier.
Inca–Mapuche conflict
The Inca–Mapuche conflict was a late 15th-century confrontation in which Mapuche resistance halted Inca southward expansion in Chile, fixing the empire's southern frontier at the Maule River.
Incahuasi Gas Field
The Incahuasi Gas Field is a giant gas and condensate field in the Bolivian Andean foothills of Santa Cruz, discovered in 2004 and brought into production in 2016.
Incahuasi, Nevado de
Nevado de Incahuasi (Quechua: House of the Inca) is a 6,638 m complex stratovolcano on the Chile-Argentina border, ENE of Ojos del Salado; no Holocene eruptions are confirmed, and it anchors the Incahuasi volcanic cluster and mafic field.
Incallajta
Incallajta is a fortified Inca archaeological site in Cochabamba, Bolivia, probably built in the 1460s under Tupa Inca Yupanqui and the largest Inca complex in Bolivia.
Incana
Incana (Lynes, 1930) is a monotypic bird genus of Cisticolidae, order Passeriformes, containing only the Socotra Warbler, Incana incana (Sclater & Hartlaub, 1881); distinct from Tringa incana and plant taxa named incana.
Incandescence
Incandescence is the emission of light by a heated substance, sometimes called hot light; a red-hot poker and a tungsten bulb filament are everyday examples.
Incandescent light bulb
The incandescent light bulb, or incandescent lamp, produces light by heating a tungsten filament until it glows, and has been phased out in the United States.
Incantation
Incantation: a spoken or written word formula believed to produce a magical effect in ritual, distinguished from prayer by imperative address to threatening forces; attested from Mesopotamia to Mari charms, Greco-Roman amulets, and Yoruba ofò.
Incantation (group)
Incantation is an American death metal band formed in 1989 in New Jersey by John McEntee, counted with Immolation and Suffocation among New York's unholy trinity of death metal.
Incantation (咒) (film)
Incantation (咒) is a 2022 Taiwanese found-footage folk horror film by Kevin Ko about a mother cursed after breaking a religious taboo. Highest-grossing Taiwanese horror film; 14 Golden Horse nominations; streamed on Netflix worldwide.
Incarceration in the United States
Incarceration in the United States is the confinement of people in federal and state prisons and locally run jails, with probation and parole serving as community supervision.
Incarnate (film)
Incarnate (2016) is a Blumhouse supernatural horror film directed by Brad Peyton, starring Aaron Eckhart as scientist Dr. Seth Ember, who enters possessed minds to evict demons; it grossed about $9 million on a $5 million budget.
Incarnation
Incarnation, from Latin for "in the flesh," is the Christian doctrine that the Son of God became man, with Jesus Christ fully God and fully human.
INCAsE trial
INCAsE (NCT04204109) was a terminated cluster randomized trial at Rigshospitalet comparing interprofessional versus monoprofessional case-based learning on gastrointestinal toxicities in childhood cancer, enrolling 49 staff; distinct from the VA COPD InCasE trial.
Ince Capital Partners
Ince Capital Partners is a China-focused venture capital firm founded in 2019 by former Qiming partners JP Gan and Steven Hu, investing in internet, consumer, and technology companies.
Ince fortlet
Ince fortlet is a scheduled Roman fortlet in Ince, Cheshire, discovered by aerial photography in the 1990s: a double-ditched 80 by 60 m enclosure overlooking the Mersey estuary, dated about 80-100 AD and linked to the Chester fortress.
Incel
Incel (involuntary celibate) is an online subculture of men who define themselves by perceived inability to form romantic relationships; coined by a woman in the 1990s, now part of the manosphere, marked by blackpill ideology, rare but high-profile violence, and widespread mental health struggles.
Incelcore
Incelcore, also called E-Punk or losercore, is a vaguely defined internet rock microgenre coined by Negative XP in 2018, defined by lyrics about alienation, romantic failure, and incel culture rather than by sound.
Incendiary device
An incendiary device, also called an incendiary weapon, is a weapon or munition primarily designed to set fires or cause burn injuries, including flame throwers, napalm, and thermite bombs.
Incendies
Incendies (2010) is Denis Villeneuve's Canadian drama adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's play, following twins seeking their mother's past in an unnamed Middle Eastern homeland; Oscar-nominated, eight Genie Awards, Venice premiere.
INCENP
INCENP (inner centromere protein) is a 918-amino-acid human scaffold protein of the chromosomal passenger complex, binding Aurora B via its IN-box and survivin-borealin via its N-terminus to regulate chromosome segregation and cytokinesis.
Incense
Incense: aromatic resins, woods, herbs, and oils burned as sticks, cones, coils, powders, or loose resins for worship, meditation, and home fragrance; frankincense trade from Arabia, forms compared, and WHO-exceeding emissions.
Incense clock
An incense clock measures time by the steady burning of incense sticks or powdered incense trails, used in China and Japan for watches, meditation, and prayer.