Laurens Dassen
Laurens Antonius Josephus Maria Dassen (born 19 October 1985) is a Dutch politician and former bank employee.
Dassen was born in Eindhoven and grew up in Knegsel, a village in the North Brabant municipality of Eersel. He studied business sciences at Radboud University Nijmegen and worked at ABN AMRO abroad.
In summer 2018 he was co-founder of Volt Netherlands, a department of the pan-European political party Volt Europe established in Italy in 2017. Since December 2018 he has been chairing Volt Netherlands.
Dassen leaded the Volt party into the 2021 Dutch general election in March 2021. Volt gained three seats, so he has been both parliamentary group leader and an MP since March 2021.
CreditNinja
CreditNinja is an American FinTech company founded in 2017.
The company was founded by Mark Friedgan who currently serves as the CEO. He was a part of the core team behind Enova International (), a leading publicly traded consumer financial services company. The company offers its users loans and installments. Unlike traditional banks, it tries to ensure that people with less-than-perfect credit can have quick access to loans. CreditNinja offers online loans of up to $5,000 without any need to post a home or car as collateral.
Volt Netherlands
Volt Netherlands is a political party in the Netherlands.
Volt Netherlands was established in 2018. It is a department of Volt Europa, a pan-European political party established in Italy in 2017. Volt wants to create a federal European Union with a fully operating European government and parliament.
Political leader and party chair of Volt Netherlands is Laurens Dassen.
Number of seats in the 2021 elections: 3 (/).
Bernese German
Bernese German (German: "Berndeutsch", Alemannic German: "Bärndütsch") is the variant of High Alemannic German spoken in Mittelland, Bern and in some regions.
Bartlett, New Hampshire
Bartlett is a town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 2,788 at the 2010 census.
Death of Sarah Everard
On the evening of 3 March 2021, 33-year-old marketing executive Sarah Everard disappeared in South London. She went missing after leaving a friend's house near Clapham Common to walk home.
On 9 March, Wayne Couzens, a Metropolitan Police officer with the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection unit, was arrested in Deal, Kent, on suspicion of Everard's kidnapping and later on suspicion of her murder. On 10 March, her remains were discovered in woodland near Ashford, Kent. Couzens was charged with kidnapping and murder two days later.In June 2021, police confirmed that Everard died of asphyxiation (strangling).
A vigil was held for Everard in London on 13 March, leading to a controversial police response and four arrests for breaking COVID-19 regulations.
Yonhy Lescano
Yonhy Lescano Ancieta (born 15 February 1959) is a Peruvian lawyer and politician. He is a member of the Popular Action party. He was a Congressman between 2001 until the dissolution of the Congress by Martín Vizcarra in 2019.
From 2009 to 2011, he was the Popular Action party's national secretary-general.
Lescano was the Popular Action Party nominee for President of Peru in the 2021 election, but lost in the first round of the election.
From 1976 to 1980, Yonhy Lescano studied law at the Catholic University of Santa María in Arequipa. From 1984 to 2001, he worked as an independent lawyer in his own town in Puno. Additionally, he was a professor, lecturing law at the National University of the Altiplano (UNA) in Puno, from 1985 to 2001.
In the 2000 elections, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in Congress under Luis Castañeda’s National Solidarity.
In the 2001 elections, he was elected as Congressman to represent the Puno Region, on the list of the centrist Popular Action. He was re-elected in the 2006 elections, on the joint Center Front coalition list which grouped the AP, We Are Peru and the National Coordinators of Independents, and in the 2011 elections on the list of the Possible Peru Alliancelist, this time for the constituency of Lima, and in the 2016 elections for a final term, leaving office in 2019 in aftermath of the dissolution of the Congress by Martín Vizcarra. Lescano was one of the Congressmen who were in favor of the dissolution.
Joseph E. Duncan III
Joseph Edward Duncan III (February 25, 1963 – March 28, 2021) was an American convicted serial killer and child molester. He was on death row in federal prison for the 2005 kidnappings and murders of members of the Groene family of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
He was also serving 11 consecutive sentences of life without parole for the Groene muders and the 1997 murder of Anthony Martinez of Beaumont, California.
Duncan confessed to — but has not been charged with — the 1996 murder of two girls, Sammiejo White and Carmen Cubias, in Seattle. At the time of the attack on the Groene family, Duncan was on the run from a child molestation charge in Minnesota. He spotted Shasta and Dylan Groene playing outside as he drove past their house on Interstate 90.
In October 2020, Duncan was diagnosed with terminal glioblastoma and had brain surgery. He died on March 28, 2021 in prison in Terre Haute, Indiana from the illness, aged 58.
Harvey Mansfield
Harvey Claflin Mansfield Jr. (born March 21, 1932) is an American political philosopher. He is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard University. He received the National Humanities Medal in 2004. He is known for his conservative stance on political issues in his writings.
Sarah Harding
Sarah Nicole Harding (born 17 November 1981) is an English singer, model, and actress. In late 2002, she auditioned for the ITV reality series "". On the show, she had won a place as a member of the girl group, Girls Aloud.
During the group's break, Harding began acting, appearing in "Bad Day", the BBC television movie "Freefall", "Run for Your Wife", and "".
She won "Celebrity Big Brother 20" in 2017. Harding is also a lingerie model.
In August 2020, Harding said that she had been diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. In March 2021, she said that the disease was terminal and had a few months to live.
Andra Day
Cassandra Monique Batie (born December 30, 1984), known by her stage name Andra Day, is an American singer-songwriter, and actress. In 2015, she released her debut album, "Cheers to the Fall". Her best known single is "Rise Up", was which nominated for the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance.
In 2021, she played Billie Holiday in the biopic "The United States vs. Billie Holiday". She won a Golden Globe Award and is currently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Her stage name was inspired by Holiday, whose nickname was "Lady Day".
Riz Ahmed
Rizwan Ahmed (born 1 December 1982), also known as Riz MC, is an English actor, musician, and activist. He is known for his roles as Rick in "Nightcrawler" (2014), ​Carlton Drake in "Venom" (2018) and as Ruben Stone in "Sound of Metal" (2020).
In 2017, he won an Emmy Award. For his role as Stone, Ahmed was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and Academy Award in 2021.
GB News
GB News is a British free news television channel. It started on 13 June 2021 on Freeview, Sky, YouView, Freesat and Virgin Media. Its chairman is Andrew Neil, who used to work for the BBC. The "Financial Times" said it would be "right-leaning". "The Guardian" and "City A.M." said it would be like the American news television channel Fox News.
German Spaniel
The German Spaniel, also known as the Deutscher Wachtelhund (which means German quail dog in German), is a medium size spaniel type of gun dog that was developed in Germany around 1890.
These dogs are usually brown/red coloured and may have some white marks, they have a wavy coat of hair and look very similar to their cousin, the Field Spaniel.