Ivan Mestrovic - Ivan Mestrovic Ivan Meštrović Croatian artist, 1883 - 1962 Ivan Mestrovic is renowned as possibly the greatest sculptor of religious subject matter since the Renaissance. He was the first living person ever to have a one man show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York city. Ivan was born on August 15, 1883, in the small town of Vrpolje in Dalmatia, Austro-Hungary. At the age of 15 he was apprenticed to a master stone cutter and latter went on, through much persistence, to be admitted to the art institute in Vienna. His artistic influences include four years spent studying archaic Greek sculpture in Rome just before World War I. It is said that Mestrovic read Serb epic poetry while he tended sheep as a.
Ivan Vidav - Ivan Vidav Ivan Vidav (born January 17, 1918) is a Slovenian mathematician. Ivan Vidav was born in Opčine near Trieste (Slovenian Trst), Italy. He is Josip Plemelj's student. Vidav got his Ph.D under Plemelj's advisory in 1941 at the University of Ljubljana with a dissertation Kleinovi teoremi v teoriji linearnih diferencialnih enačb (Klein's theorems in the theory of linear differential equations). From 1988 he is a honourable member of the Society of mathematicians, physicists and astronomers of Slovenia (DMFA)..
Ivan Novikoff - Ivan Novikoff Ivan Novikoff (August 26, 1899 - March 20, 2002) was a ballet master. Born in Kazan, Russia, Novikoff studied at the Imperial Ballet School. He fled to China because of the 1917 Russian Revolution at age 17, where he taught dance to the children of Russian soldiers. In 1923, he immigrated to the United States, where he continued teaching ballet until his death. He founded the Novikoff School of Russian-American Ballet in the early 1950s and received the Governor's Heritage Award (of the state of Washington) in 1989. Novikoff followed in the footsteps of another preeminent ballet teacher Dame Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet of London. Incidentally, she was also 102 when she died..
Ivan Pavlov - Ivan Pavlov Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (September 14 1849 - February 27 1936), Russian physiologist who first described the phenomenon now known as conditioning in experiments with dogs. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904. Pavlov was investigating the gastric function of dogs, by externalising a salivary gland so he could collect, measure, and analyse the saliva produced in response to food under different conditions. He noticed that the dogs tended to salivate before food was actually delivered to their mouths, and set out to investigate this "psychic secretion", as he called it. He correctly decided that this was more interesting than the chemistry of saliva, and changed the focus of his research, carrying out a long series of experiments in which.
Ivan IV of Russia - Ivan IV of Russia zh-cn:伊凡四世 Ivan IV of Russia (August 25, 1530 - March 18, 1584), first tsar of all Russia. Known in the Russian language as Ivan Grozny (Иван Грозный) (Thunderous), known in English as Ivan the Terrible. This tsar retains his place in the Russian folk tradition simply as Ivan Vasilyevich (Vasilly III's son). Ivan came to the throne at age three and was crowned tsar at age sixteen on January 16, 1547. The early part of reign was one of peaceful reforms and modernization. Ivan revised the law code, created a standing army, established the Zemsky Sobor, the council of the nobles, and subordinated the church to the state, making a system of rituals and regulations. Ivan formed new trading connections, opening up.
Ivan Sutherland - Ivan Sutherland Ivan Edward Sutherland was the inventor of Sketchpad, an innovate program that influenced alternative forms of interaction with computers. Sketchpad ran on the Lincoln TX-2 computer and influenced Douglas Engelbart's On-Line System as well as the development of the graphical user interface. Sketchpad, in turn, was influenced by the conceptual Memex as envisioned by Vannevar Bush in his famous paper "As We May Think". For his invention of Sketchpad and related work, Sutherland received the Turing Award in 1988. Sutherland earned his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (known now as Carnegie-Mellon University), his Master's degree from Caltech, and his Ph.D. from MIT. With his friend and colleague Dave Evans, he established Evans and Sutherland, a company that has.
Ivan I of Russia - Ivan I of Russia Grand Prince Ivan I of Vladimir (1325-1341) Known as Ivan Kalita, or moneybag, the second ruler of Moscow to serve as Grand Prince of Vladimir Suzdal. After the defection of Tver to Lithuania the Khan of the Golden Horde was forced to rely on Ivan as his preeminent Russian vassal. Ivan was the Mongol's leading tax collector and made himself and Moscow very wealthy by maintaining his loyalty to the Horde. He used this wealth to give loans to neighbouring Russian principalities. These cities gradualy fell deeper and deeper into debt, a condition that would allow Ivan's successors to annex them. Ivan's greatest success, however, was convincing the Khan in Sarai that his son should succeed him as Grand Prince of Vladimir,.
Ivan V of Russia - Ivan V of Russia Ivan V (In Russian: Иван V Алексеевич Романов) (6 September 1666 - 8 February 1696) was joint tsar of Russia with Peter I. Ivan reigned from 1682-1696. This article is a stump: please add useful information here. Preceded by: Feodor III List of Russian Tsars Succeeded by: Peter I (Peter the Great).
Ivan II of Russia - Ivan II of Russia Grand Prince Ivan II Ivanovitch of Vladimir (Иван II Иванович in Russian) (born 30 March 1326 in Moscow - died 13 November 1359 in Moscow) (1353-1359) Upon succeeding his brother Simeon to the throne Ivan initially toyed with abandoning the traditional Muscovite allegiance to the Mongols and allying with Lithuania. This policy was quickly abandoned, however, and for the later part of his reign Ivan was loyal to the Khan. Preceded by: Semeon List of Russian Tsars Succeeded by: Dimitri.
Ivan III of Russia - Ivan III of Russia Ivan III Vasilevich (Иван III Васильевич) (January 22, 1440 - October 27, 1505) also known as Ivan the Great ruled from 1462 - 1505. Ivan has been referred to as the "gatherer of the Russian lands". He subjugated a number of Russian territories, turned back the incursion of Lithuania into Russian lands and broke free Muscovy from the control of the Golden Horde. His second wife Sophia, niece of the last Byzantine emperor, brought customs of the Byzantine court and more openness to European culture. The new political and religious position of Muscovy gave rise to the idea of Moscow as theThird Rome (Rome and Constantinople being the first and second). Preceded by: Vasili II List of Russian Tsars Succeeded by: Vasili.
Ivan VI of Russia - Ivan VI of Russia Ivan VI of Russia, (1740 - 1764), reigned as Emperor of Russia 1740 - 1741, was the son of Prince Antony Ulrich of Brunswick-Lüneburg and of the princess Anna Leopoldovna of Mecklenburg. His great-aunt the empress Anna I of Russia adopted the eight-week-old boy and declared him her successor on 5 October 1740. On the death of Anna (17 October 1740) Ivan was proclaimed emperor, and on the following day Ernst Johann von Biron, duke of Courland, became regent. On the fall of Biron (November 8th), the regency passed to the baby tsar’s mother, though the capable vice-chancellor, Andrei Osterman conducted the government. Thirteen months later a coup d’état placed the tsarevna Elizabeth on the throne (December 6, 1741), and Ivan and.
Ivan Krylov - Ivan Krylov Ivan Krylov, one of the best-loved writers in Russian literature began his literary career in journalism and short fiction in the late 18th century. Fame came with his later works, especially series of fables written in popular language and folk verse-forms, which appeared during the first half of the 19th century. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin The Russian writer Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (October 10, 1870 - November 8, 1953), born in Voronezh, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1933. Initially he wrote journalism and poetry, then prose, especially short stories. He emigrated from Russia in 1919, eventually settling in Paris. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Ivan Turgenev - Ivan Turgenev Ivan Turgenev, photo by Félix Nadar Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Иван Тургенев, November 9, 1818 - September 3, 1883) was a Russian novelist, poet, and writer. Turgenev was born into a wealthy family, but suffered at the hands of an emotional and abusive mother, who terrified young Ivan. After the normal schooling for a child of a gentleman's family, Turgenev's higher education took place in St. Petersburg from 1834 to 1837, and in Berlin from 1838 to 1841. The German transliteration of his name is Iwan Sergejewitsch Turgenjew. Unlike the other two great Russian writers of this time, Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, Turgenev was uninterested in religion, and this led to a strained, highly artificial friendship with the other two. However, the man was.
Ivan Stang - Ivan Stang Ivan Stang is the author and publisher of the first screed of the Church of the SubGenius. He is credited with founding the Church in 1979, though Stang himself denies this and claims the organization was founded in 1953 by J. R. "Bob" Dobbs. Since the publication of the first SubGenius pamphlet in 1980, Stang has embarked on a worldwide crusade (spanning at least three continents) to promote the Church. Stang also founded the business entity of the Church, the SubGenius Foundation. The SubGenius Foundation was located in Dallas, Texas for most of its life, though in 1999 Stang himself relocated to Cleveland, Ohio. The SubGenius Foundation is now based in Austin, Texas, and is managed by Steve Bevilacqua. Stang himself continues to promote.
Ivan Calderon (boxer) - Ivan Calderon (boxer) Ivan Calderon (born approx. 1981) is a boxer from Puerto Rico. Calderon attended the 2000 Olympics in Australia, but he lost there on the first (tournament) round. He also lost to Brian Viloria during his amateur boxing career. After turning professional, Calderon has managed to raise the eyebrows of many Puerto Rican boxing fans, and he has been frequently showcased on ESPN's Friday Night Fights show. On May 3, 2003, Calderon became a world champion for the first time, beating Eduardo Marquez by a technical decision in nine rounds at Las Vegas, as part of the De La Hoya-Campas undercard, to win the WBO's world Strawweight title. He had dropped Marquez twice before the end of the fight. Calderon retained his title by.
Ivan Illich - Ivan Illich Ivan Illich. (September 4,1926 - December 2,2002), polymath, polemicist, was an example of a true free thinker. Author of an informal series of polemical critiques of the institutions of 'modern' culture, disliked as much by right wing as by left wing commentators, he addressed issues from education to medicine to work to energy use and economic development to gender. Born in Vienna to a family with Jewish, Dalmatian and Catholic roots, from where they were forced to flee in 1941, he studied histology and crystallography at Florence University. From 1932 to 1946 he studied theology and philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in the Vatican, and worked as a priest in New York. In 1956 he was appointed vice-rector of the Catholic University of.
Ivan Chtcheglov - Ivan Chtcheglov Ivan Chtcheglov, born 1934, is a Russian political theorist, activist and poet, active in France but formely resident of the Soviet Union. He wrote "Formulary for a New Urbanism" in 1953, at age nineteen under the name Gilles Ivain, which was an inspiration to the Lettrist International and Situationist International. It develops some of the ideas of Charles Fourier. He tried to deconstruct the Eiffel Tower and was arrested in Paris and committed to an asylum or mental hospital by his wife, where he was subdued with insulin and shock therapy, and remained for 5 years..
Ivan Goncharov - Ivan Goncharov Ivan Goncharov (June 18, 1812 - September 15, 1891) was a Russian novelist best known as the author of Oblomov (1859). He was born in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk); his father was a wealthy grain merchant. After graduating from Moscow University in 1834 Goncharov served for thirty years as a minor government official. 1847 appeared Goncharov's first novel, A Common Story, was published in 1847, it dealt with the conflicts between the decadent Russian nobility and the rising merchant class. It was followed by Ivan Savvich Podzhabrin (1848), a naturalist psychological sketch. Between 1852 and 1855 Goncharov voyaged to England, Africa, Japan, and back to Russia via Siberia as the secretary of Admiral Putyatin. His travelogue, a chronicle of the trip, The Frigate Pallada, was.
IVAN - IVAN Iter Vehemens ad Necem (IVAN) is a graphical roguelike game, which currently runs in Windows, DOS and Linux. Its latest version is 0.430 although 0.440 is in the works. Its name roughly translates from Latin as 'Highway to Hell'. External Link IVAN's official site: http://ivan.sourceforge.net/.
