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Lord Trimble official portrait, 2018

William David Trimble, Baron Trimble, PC (October 15, 1944 - July 24, 2022), was a politician from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) and the first First Minister of Northern Ireland. He shared the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize with John Hume of the Social Democratic and Labour Party. On June 6, 2006, he became a member of the House of Lords as The Right Honourable William David Trimble by the name, style and title of Baron Trimble, of Lisnagarvey in the County of Antrim. Although a staunch Protestant and member of the Orange Order, Trimble was able to reach across both the religious and the political divide to enter peace negotiations and to agree a new power-sharing system of governance.

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The Earth's "plasma fountain," showing oxygen, helium, and hydrogen ions that gush into space from regions near the Earth's poles. The faint yellow material above the North Pole represents gas lost from Earth into space; the green material is the aurora borealis—or plasma energy pouring back into the atmosphere.

An ion is an atom, group of atoms, or subatomic particle with a net electric charge. An ion with a net positive charge is called a cation; one with a net negative charge is called an anion. The atoms of metals tend to form cations, and the atoms of nonmetals tend to form anions, but there are some exceptions. Ions of opposite charges attract each other. When a cation forms a chemical bond ("ionic bond") with an anion, an ionic compound is produced. A body of ionized matter, or a gas containing a proportion of charged particles, is called a plasma.

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The geographical and historical isolation of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands has resulted in the development an ecosystem with unique floral and faunal habitats (source: Cocos (Keeling) Islands)

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