International Development Agency
International Documentary Association
International Door Association
Idaho Department of Agriculture
Illinois Digital Archives
International Dark Sky Association (linked to explain that one!)
Irish Dental Association
...and so forth. Here's an extensive list.
AND...there is at least one Ida of note, a woman named Ida Holdgreve, who took part in aviation history by sewing the cloth wings for the first Wright Brothers' planes:
"Around 1910, Ida Holdgreve, a Dayton, Ohio, seamstress, answered a local ad that read, “Plain Sewing Wanted.” But the paper got it wrong. Dayton brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright were hiring a seamstress, though the sewing they needed would be far from plain.
“Well, if it’s plain,” said Holdgreve years later, recalling her initial thoughts on the brothers’ ad, “I can certainly do that.” The quote ran in the October 6, 1975, edition of Holdgreve’s hometown newspaper, The Delphos Herald.
The Wright brothers, in fact, wanted someone to perform “plane sewing,” but in 1910, that term was as novel as airplanes themselves—a typesetter could have easily mixed up the spelling. And while Holdgreve lacked experience with “plane sewing,” so did the vast majority of the world. She got the job, and the typo turned a new page in women’s history."
SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine article.
AND, The Washington Post points out:
Isabel. Ivan. Ike. Irene. Irma. And now Ida. These terrible hurricanes, all of which have occurred since 2003, begin with a common vowel. They haven’t all started with the same letter by chance — there is some science behind the abundance of notorious storms starting with the letter “I.”
FULL STORY IS HERE.
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