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Insurrection of the South

The Insurrection of the South (French: Insurrection du sud) was an armed uprising in September 1870 by the rural population of southern Martinique against white planters, followed by mass arrests and executions.

Insurrection of Túpac Katari

The Insurrection of Túpac Katari (Insurrección de Túpac Katari) was the Aymara-led rising of 1781 in Upper Peru, led by Julián Apaza, who twice besieged La Paz.

Insurrectionary anarchism

Insurrectionary anarchism, also called insurrectionism, is an anarchist tendency favoring informal affinity-group organization and immediate direct attack over mass organizations; key networks include the FAI–FRI (Italy, 2003) and the Greek Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei.

Insurrectionary communes in France in 1870–1871

Insurrectionary communes in France 1870-1871: provincial revolutionary municipal governments at Lyon, Marseille, Narbonne, Toulouse, Saint-Étienne, and Le Creusot, preceding and paralleling the Paris Commune, involving Bakunin and Cluseret, crushed by April 1871.

INSV Kaundinya

INSV Kaundinya is a stitched sailing ship of the Indian Navy, built entirely with traditional techniques and inducted in 2025; in 2026 it sailed from Porbandar to Muscat.

Insys Therapeutics

Insys Therapeutics, Arizona pharmaceutical maker of the fentanyl spray Subsys; founder John Kapoor and executives convicted of racketeering in 2019, $225 million settlement, Chapter 11 bankruptcy, first opioid maker to fail.

InSyTe

InSyTe is a product line of preclinical small-animal molecular imaging systems made by TriFoil Imaging of Chatsworth, California, whose FLECT/CT model combines 360° fluorescence emission computed tomography with inline X-ray CT for imaging mice.

Int j psychoanal

Int J Psychoanal is the NLM title abbreviation for The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, a bimonthly psychoanalytic journal founded in 1920 by Ernest Jones with Freud.

Int-Ball

Int-Ball, formally the JEM Internal Ball Camera, is a free-flying camera robot developed by JAXA that records crew activities inside the International Space Station's Kibo module since 2017.

Inta Klimovicha

Inta Klimovicha (Inta Kļimoviča, born 1951) is a Latvian former 400 m sprinter for the Soviet Union: 1976 Olympic 4x400 m relay bronze and 1976 4x440 yards relay world record.

Intact dilation and extraction

Intact dilation and extraction (D&X, intact D&E), also called partial-birth abortion, is a second/third-trimester procedure extracting an intact fetus after cranial decompression; devised by Martin Haskell in 1992 and federally banned in the US since 2003.

Intact Financial

Intact Financial Corporation is a Canadian property and casualty insurance holding company headquartered in Toronto and the largest P&C insurer in Canada, with about $24 billion in premiums by 2024.

Intact stability

Intact stability is a ship's ability to remain upright and resist heeling while its hull is undamaged, a core discipline of naval architecture governed by the IMO's 2008 IS Code.

Intaglio (printmaking)

Intaglio, also known as intaglio printing, is a printmaking technique that prints ink from lines cut or etched below a plate's surface, including engraving and etching.

Intake tower

An intake tower, also called an outlet tower, is a vertical concrete structure in a reservoir that feeds water from a dam to penstocks or conduits.

Intamin

Intamin, short for International Amusement Installations, is a ride manufacturer founded in 1967 in Bern, Switzerland, and based in Liechtenstein, known for Kingda Ka and the 240 km/h Formula Rossa.

Intangible asset

An intangible asset is a non-physical resource, such as a patent, brand, or software, that gives its owner identifiable future economic benefits under accounting standard IAS 38.

Intangible capital

Intangible capital is the stock of non-physical assets firms use repeatedly in production, including software, R&D, design, brands, and organizational capital, defined by Corrado, Hulten, and Sichel in 2005.

Intangible cultural heritage

Intangible cultural heritage (ICH), or living heritage, covers traditions, knowledge, and skills communities recognize as their heritage. Defined by UNESCO's 2003 Convention (adopted 17 October 2003; 185 states parties as of June 2026), spanning five domains and UNESCO lists.

Intapp

Intapp is an American software company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, selling cloud-based client lifecycle, risk, and compliance software to professional and financial services firms.

Intaranum

Intaranum, ancient name of Entrains-sur-Nohain (Nièvre, France), a Gallo-Roman vicus of the Aedui, 1st-4th centuries AD, road crossroads, ironworking center, 80-120 ha, with a 115 m theater and Apollon Grinovantis sanctuary.

Intarsia (knitting)

Intarsia (knitting): a colorwork technique using a separate bobbin of yarn for each color block, with no floats and twisted color changes, unlike stranded Fair Isle knitting; worked flat for large isolated motifs.

Intef (general)

Intef was a Theban military official of the Eleventh Dynasty, overseer of troops under King Mentuhotep II, known from a statue in Theban tomb 386.

Intef (TT155)

Intef, also transcribed Antef, was an early 18th Dynasty Egyptian official who served as royal herald under Hatshepsut and Thutmose III and owned tomb TT 155 at Thebes.

Intef I

Intef I, also Inyotef I or Antef I, was a Theban king of ancient Egypt's Eleventh Dynasty, the first of his house to claim pharaohship, reigning about 2125-2112 BC.

Intef II

Intef II, also written Antef II or Inyotef II, was a Theban king of Egypt's Eleventh Dynasty who reigned about 49 years during the First Intermediate Period.

Intef III

Intef III, also known as Inyotef III or Antef III, was the fourth pharaoh of the Theban Eleventh Dynasty of ancient Egypt, probably the father of Mentuhotep II.

Intef the Elder

Intef the Elder, also known as Antef the Great, was a non-royal Theban nomarch of the early 11th Dynasty, remembered as founder of the Theban royal line.

Intef tombs at Dra Abu el-Naga

The Intef tombs, or Tombs of the Intefs, are royal tombs of late Seventeenth Dynasty kings at Dra Abu el-Naga, Thebes, from about 1580 BC.

Intefiqer

Intefiqer (or Antefoqer) was a highly attested vizier and governor of Thebes in Egypt's early Twelfth Dynasty who served Amenemhat I and Senusret I.