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Italian Argentines
Italian Argentines: Argentines of Italian descent, the core of Argentina's mass-migration-era European immigration (12.5% of the 1895 population); distinguished from Italian Americans by greater integration, Italian-Spanish linguistic affinity, and cocoliche and lunfardo influence on Rioplatense Spanish.
Italian immigration to Brazil
Italian immigration to Brazil (Imigração italiana no Brasil) brought about 1.4 million Italians between the 1870s and 1920, mainly as subsidized labor on São Paulo's coffee plantations.
Italian Jews
Italian Jews, or Italkim (איטלקים), are the Jews of Italy's oldest continuous communities, dating to Roman antiquity, with a distinct liturgical rite (minhag Benè Roma), Roman ghetto history 1555–1870, and UCEI representation, distinct from Ashkenazim and Sephardim.
Italians
Italians (Italian: italiani) are the citizens and inhabitants of Italy and its worldwide diaspora. Their shared national identity took shape only after unification in 1861.
Item analysis
Item analysis is a psychometric method for evaluating individual test questions using statistics such as difficulty, discrimination, and distractor performance, so test developers can retain, revise, or reject items.
Item recognition task
The item recognition task is a memory paradigm in which participants study items and later judge old from new ones, measuring recognition memory rather than recall.
Itinerant groups in Europe
Itinerant groups in Europe: Roma, Sinti, Irish Travellers (Pavee), Yenish, Gens du voyage, Nordic Travellers and Showpeople, their languages, populations, legal status, and accommodation policy.
Ivorian refugee crisis
The Ivorian refugee crisis is the forced displacement produced by Côte d'Ivoire's political violence from 2002 into the early 2020s, including two civil wars that displaced hundreds of thousands.
Ivy Getty
Ivy Love Getty, American artist and model, great-granddaughter of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, granddaughter of Gordon and Ann Getty; married Tobias Engel in 2021 in a mirrored Maison Margiela gown.
Ivy League nude posture photos
Ivy League nude posture photos: mandatory nude freshman photographs at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Seven Sisters colleges, and Swarthmore from the 1880s to the late 1960s, tied to W. H. Sheldon's body-typing pseudoscience and exposed by Ron Rosenbaum's 1995 New York Times Magazine article.
Iwerne camps
Iwerne camps (Bash camps): elite evangelical holiday camps founded in the 1930s by EJH Nash at Iwerne Minster, Dorset, for top public schoolboys; closed 2020 after the John Smyth abuse cover-up.
Iwi
Iwi are the largest descent-based groups in Māori society, made up of hapū and whānau, tracing descent from founding ancestors or waka. Parties to the Treaty of Waitangi, iwi today hold Treaty settlements, fisheries and investment assets, and statutory roles in planning and health.
Iyer
Iyer (ஐயர்) is a Hindu Brahmin caste of Tamil origin, also a surname, whose members follow the Smarta tradition and Advaita philosophy of Adi Shankara.
J-1 visa
J-1 visa: United States nonimmigrant exchange visitor visa (BridgeUSA, Fulbright-Hays Act 1961) for 15 categories including au pair, intern, professor, and physician; about 300,000 participants yearly, DS-2019 sponsor-issued, with a possible 212(e) two-year home-residency rule.
J. J. McCullough
J.J. McCullough (John James McCullough, born 1984) is a Vancouver-based Canadian YouTuber, columnist, and commentator with over 1 million subscribers, a former Sun News Network TV pundit, Washington Post and National Review columnist, and Bill C-11 opponent.
Jack Mormon
Jack Mormon is an American term (1835–45) for either a non-Mormon friendly to Latter-day Saints or a lax, nominal Mormon; originally applied to Missouri and Illinois sympathizers, later to nonconforming members.
Jack Reagan
John Edward "Jack" Reagan (1883–1941), Illinois shoe salesman and father of President Ronald Reagan and Neil Reagan; Catholic Democrat, WPA local director, alcoholic whose porch incident shaped his son's memoirs.
Jack Whittaker (lottery winner)
Jack Whittaker (1947-2020), West Virginia construction contractor who won a $314.9 million Powerball jackpot on December 25, 2002, then the largest single-ticket US lottery jackpot; took a $113.4 million cash option, later faced thefts, lawsuits, and family deaths.
Jackie Long
Jackie Long is a British journalist, Social Affairs Editor and presenter at Channel 4 News since 2011, after two decades at the BBC including Newsnight; known for the Yarl's Wood undercover investigation.
Jacob Hersant
Jacob Hersant (born c. 1998) is an Australian neo-Nazi who co-leads the National Socialist Network with Thomas Sewell and was the first person convicted, and later jailed, under Victoria's Nazi salute ban.
Jacqueline Saburido
Jacqueline "Jacqui" Saburido (1978–2019), Venezuelan survivor of a September 19, 1999 drunk-driving crash near Austin, Texas, that burned over 60% of her body; her image anchored TxDOT's Before and After and Faces of Drunk Driving campaigns from 2002 onward.
Jacques de Bascher
Jacques de Bascher (1951-1989), French dandy born in Saigon, companion of Karl Lagerfeld and lover of Yves Saint Laurent; his affair triggered the couturiers' rupture, and he directed the 1977 Fendi film Histoire d'eau.
Jamais vu
Jamais vu (jamais-vu), French for 'never seen', is the opposite of déjà vu: a metamemory state in which familiar places, people, or words suddenly feel strange and unfamiliar. Rarer than déjà vu, it is inducible in the laboratory by word repetition and occurs in temporal lobe epilepsy.
James "Radio" Kennedy
James Robert "Radio" Kennedy (1946-2019) was a South Carolina man with an intellectual disability who became a fixture at T.L. Hanna High School and inspired the 2003 film Radio with Cuba Gooding Jr.
James A. Lindsay
James A. Lindsay, American mathematician (PhD, University of Tennessee, 2010), author, and founder of New Discourses, known for the 2018 Grievance Studies hoax with Pluckrose and Boghossian and for Cynical Theories and Race Marxism.
James Chaney
James Earl Chaney (1943–1964), Meridian, Mississippi CORE civil rights worker murdered with Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman during Freedom Summer in Neshoba County; 1967 federal conspiracy convictions, 2005 Killen manslaughter conviction, 2014 posthumous Medal of Freedom.
James Dallas Egbert III
James Dallas Egbert III, known as Dallas Egbert, was a gifted Michigan State student whose 1979 disappearance fueled a Dungeons & Dragons moral panic before he died in 1980.
James F. Blake
James F. Blake (1913-2002) was the Montgomery, Alabama bus driver who ordered Rosa Parks to give up her seat on December 1, 1955, precipitating the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott and Browder v. Gayle.
James Farmer
James Farmer (1920–1999), American civil rights leader, co-founder and national director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), architect of the 1961 Freedom Rides, later HEW assistant secretary and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler (born 1948) is an American author and social critic, author of The Geography of Nowhere and The Long Emergency, critic of suburban sprawl and peak oil, blogger of Clusterfuck Nation, and host of the KunstlerCast podcast.