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Historical Figures 2.0: The Initials |
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Chris Isaak , musician , singer
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I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth.
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Darius I (550 BC - 486 BC).
Ruler of the Old Persian Empire at its peak. The empire expansion to the West ended at the Battle of Marathon (490 BC). Father of Xerxes I.  |
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Eugene Ionesco (1909 - 1994), Romanian-born playwright, a key figure of absurd theatre.
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Flavius Iosephus (1st Century AD).
Roman-Jewish historian notorious for his citation of the early Christians.  |
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Georges Ifrah (b. 1947 in Morocco), French author and historian of mathematics. From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers (1985, 1994) was translated into multiple languages and became an international bestseller.  |
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Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)
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Ilena Isinbaeva* (born 1982).
Russian athlete. The greatest female pole-vaulter of all time.  * I wrote the way it generally appears in the Brazilian press.
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John Inman (1935 - 2007)
English actor. Mr Humphries in "Are You being Served".  |
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Kazuo Ishiguro (b. 1954 in Nagasaki), English novelist, screenwriter and short story writer. Nobelist of 2017.
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Lee Ingleby (b. 1976)
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Mary Ingalls (1865 - 1928), the first child in the Ingalls family, known from the 70's TV series Little House on the Prairie, which was based upon her sister Laura Ingalls Wilder's autobiographical books. (I used to watch it as a kid.)
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Natalie Imbruglia (born 1975).
Australian singer, model and actress.  |
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Osmo Ikonen (b. 1980), Finnish pop musician: singer, songwriter, keyboard player/ multi-instrumentalist, producer.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893).
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(Skipping Q) Robert Irvine (born 24 September 1965), English celebrity chef and talk show host.
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Salvador Ibañez (1854 - 1920).
Spanish luthier. It's better to show an Ibanez* guitar and its association with rock music. (* the tilde disappeared).  Edited by Atkingani - February 08 2018 at 13:42 |
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Tea Ista (1932 - 2014), Finnish actress, who had a long career in both theatre and films. To my generation her name is mostly seen in crosswords.
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Hope you don't mind me replying twice in a row -- I just want to speed up our progress a little, on this challenging letter.
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov (1870 - 1924), aka Lenin.
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Washington Irving (1783 – 1859), American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian and diplomat.
He was one of the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe. Famous stories: "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".  |
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