1 February

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 1 February:

1. On this date in 1887, William Padgett died when he inspected his neighbour’s bear trap to see if it was adjusted correctly, and got caught in it.
2. In 1468 BC Pharaoh Tuthmoses III of the 18th Dynasty seized control of Egypt, upon the death, or more likely murder, of Hatsheput. Hatsheput was the first female king, and had ruled peacefully for seventeen years. She had initiated a culture of peace, building temples and sponsoring the arts.
3. In 1992, a meeting took place in Washington DC, between President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin. They declared the official end of the Cold War and vowed to work together to democratise Russia.
4. In 2008 NASA announced that Across the Universe by The Beatles would be the first song ever to be beamed directly into space. In a message to NASA, Sir Paul McCartney said the project was an "amazing" feat. "Well done, Nasa," he added. "Send my love to the aliens. All the best, Paul."
5. The Times published its first Crossword puzzle on this date in 1930.
6. According to a bunch of London fortune tellers and astrologers, on this date in 1524, the city would drown under the River Thames. The waters of the Thames would swell to such a height as to flood the whole city of London, and wash away ten thousand houses. A lot of people believed it, and packed up their goods, and moved to Kent and Essex on foot or by wagon. It didn't happen, of course, and rather than admit they were wrong, those who'd evacuated claimed there had been a miscalculation and the flood would come a century later, in 1624.
7. In 1887, Harvey Wilcox of Kansas subdivided 120 acres of land he owned in Southern California and started selling it off as a real estate development. His wife christened it Hollywood after the summer home of a woman she'd met on a train.
8. This date in 1915 saw the birth of Sir Stanley Matthews, the first British soccer player to receive a knighthood.
9. In 1984, Michael Jackson's single, Thriller, was released.
10. Born this date in 1901 was Clark Gable, American actor, best known as Gone With the Wind's Rhett Butler. His other films include Mutiny on the Bounty, The Misfits and It Happened One Night.

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Willow believes in crystal healing, cosmic  ordering  and the significance of chance  encounters. She believes there's a spiritual  explanation for everything. Except she struggles to find a reason why she can turn herself into  mist and create a wave of energy which can slam a would-be mugger into a wall. Or why the love of  her life left her for a mysterious woman in sunglasses, who then disappeared without trace.  

A chance encounter with Firebolt, leader of the Freedom League superhero team, in a Glastonbury coffee shop, does turn out to be significant. He offers her a new start and the chance to use her powers for good.

Servant is a Christian who has joined the Freedom League in order to use his teleporting power to serve God. He and Willow clash from the start, yet they are drawn inexorably to one another.

When Willow leaves the team abruptly for reasons unknown, Servant knows he must put her out of his mind and find a nice Christian girl to settle down with. He is about to propose to devout and straight-laced Ruth, when Willow returns and turns his entire world upside down.

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31 January

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 31 January:

1. This date in 1881 saw the birth of Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina, famous for being the first ballerina to embark on a world tour. Her most famous dance is the Dying Swan.
2. In 1982 Sandy Duncan gave her final performance as Peter Pan in Los Angeles. The actress, blind in one eye, had completed 956 performances and never missed a show. She flew a total of 261.5 miles during her tenure.
3. In 2013, an Asteroid which had been discovered at Ukraine's Andrushivka Astronomical Observatory in August 2008 was named 274301 Wikipedia.
4. In 1983, it became compulsory to wear seat belts in cars in Britain.
5. In 2015, Lydia Ko of New Zealand, aged 17, became the youngest golfer to be ranked number 1 in the world. She was almost four years younger at the time of her achievement than the previous record holder, Tiger Woods had been.
6. In 2012 an Afghan woman was killed by her husband and mother-in-law. Her crime? Giving birth to a third daughter when her husband wanted a son.
7. In 2013 a train overshot the end of the tracks and crashed into the ladies toilets in Brisbane, Australia, leaving 14 people injured.
8. In 1910, Dr Crippen poisoned his wife, cut her into small pieces and buried her in the cellar.
9. In 2001, a conman in Kentucky bought $2 worth of fast food from Dairy Queen in Danville, handing over a fake $200 note, with a picture of George W Bush with a sign reading "We like Broccoli" on it. The cashier, who was presumably half asleep or not familiar with US currency and the fact that only dead presidents appear on it, handed over $198 in change. As there are no real $200 notes, the conman couldn't be charged with forgery, only theft.
10. In 1867, the four bronze lions at the base of Nelson's column in Trafalgar Square, London, were completed by painter Sir Edwin Landseer and put in position.

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Willow believes in crystal healing, cosmic  ordering  and the significance of chance  encounters. She believes there's a spiritual  explanation for everything. Except she struggles to find a reason why she can turn herself into  mist and create a wave of energy which can slam a would-be mugger into a wall. Or why the love of  her life left her for a mysterious woman in sunglasses, who then disappeared without trace.  

A chance encounter with Firebolt, leader of the Freedom League superhero team, in a Glastonbury coffee shop, does turn out to be significant. He offers her a new start and the chance to use her powers for good.

Servant is a Christian who has joined the Freedom League in order to use his teleporting power to serve God. He and Willow clash from the start, yet they are drawn inexorably to one another.

When Willow leaves the team abruptly for reasons unknown, Servant knows he must put her out of his mind and find a nice Christian girl to settle down with. He is about to propose to devout and straight-laced Ruth, when Willow returns and turns his entire world upside down.

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30 January

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 30 January:

1. Born this date in 1866 was Gelett Burgess, a writer best known as a writer of nonsense verse. He coined the word "blurb," to describe the words on a book jacket.
2. In 1649 Charles I was beheaded for treason by order of Cromwell, by executioner Richard Brandon at Whitehall, who was paid £30 for his trouble. The king's last words are said by some to have been “Remember!” said to Bishop Juxon, referring to a message to his son, commanding him to forgive his enemies and murderers. Others say his last words were "From a corruptible to an incorruptible crown where no disturbance can be, no disturbance in the world" Charles I is reported to have said to his attendant when he awoke, “I will get up. I have a great work to do this day.” He put on an extra shirt so he wouldn't shiver with cold and appear to be afraid of meeting his death.
3. In 1847 the town of Yerba Buena in California, USA, was re-named. Its new name? San Francisco.
4. The first purpose-built lifeboat was launched on the River Tyne on this date in 1790.
5. In 1958, Yves Saint Laurent, aged 23, held his first major Paris show.
6. In 1883, in an effort to stop employees from helping themselves to the proceeds at at their Ohio pub, James Ritty and his brother patented the world's first cash register and called it 'the incorruptible cashier'.
7. In 1607 the River Severn flooded, inundating Barnstaple, Gloucester, Cardiganshire, Bristol, the Gwent Levels and Glastonbury Tor. It was estimated that 2,000 people were killed.
8. In 1932 The New York Herald Tribune reported that thirty members of an audience had fallen ill, with food poisoning. They'd been listening to an after-dinner speech by the Massachusetts State Commissioner of Health, Dr GH Bigelow, at the Harvard Medical School, Boston. The subject of the good doctor's speech was, wait for it... ‘‘Food poisoning’’.
9. In 1933 the first episode of the Lone Ranger was broadcast. It ran for 2,956 episodes and came to an end on radio in 1954. Jack Deeds was the first voice of the Lone Ranger. The role of Tonto, was played for almost the entire run by a bald Irishman named John Todd.
10. This date in 1965 saw the state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of England. It was the biggest state funeral of its kind since the burial of the Duke of Wellington in 1852. Queen Elizabeth II broke precedent by becoming the first reigning monarch to attend a commoner's funeral.

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Willow believes in crystal healing, cosmic  ordering  and the significance of chance  encounters. She believes there's a spiritual  explanation for everything. Except she struggles to find a reason why she can turn herself into  mist and create a wave of energy which can slam a would-be mugger into a wall. Or why the love of  her life left her for a mysterious woman in sunglasses, who then disappeared without trace.  

A chance encounter with Firebolt, leader of the Freedom League superhero team, in a Glastonbury coffee shop, does turn out to be significant. He offers her a new start and the chance to use her powers for good.

Servant is a Christian who has joined the Freedom League in order to use his teleporting power to serve God. He and Willow clash from the start, yet they are drawn inexorably to one another.

When Willow leaves the team abruptly for reasons unknown, Servant knows he must put her out of his mind and find a nice Christian girl to settle down with. He is about to propose to devout and straight-laced Ruth, when Willow returns and turns his entire world upside down.

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29 January

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 29 January:

1. Oprah Winfrey, US actress and TV host was born on this date in 1954. Her mother intended to name her Orpah, but a typo on her birth certificate legally recorded her name as "Oprah."
2. In 1988, during the intermission of a matinée performance of Verdi’s Macbeth at the New York Met, a failed opera singer named Bantcho Bantchevsky committed suicide by leaping from the balcony.
3. In 2018, Viorica Dăncilă was confirmed as Romania's first female Prime Minister.
4. In 1965, during a concert in London, singer P.J. Proby split his pants on stage, significantly increasing his "naughty" reputation. Later, he was banned by the ABC theatre chain for his new habit of splitting his trousers on stage on purpose for dramatic effect.
5. On this date in 1845, Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven first appeared in the New York Evening Mirror under the pen name, "Quarles".
6. In 1856, Queen Victoria instituted Britain’s highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross. The medal is awarded to British and Commonwealth armed forces for outstanding bravery ‘on the field of battle’. Until 1942 the medal was made from the metal of a cannon captured from the Russians at Sevastopol.
7. The crime which inspired the Boomtown Rats song I don't like Mondays occurred on this date in 1979. Brenda Spencer, 17, fired repeatedly at the school across the road from her home in San Diego, killing 2 children and wounding 8. When asked why she'd done it, Spencer replied, "I don't like Mondays."
8. In 1989 an artificial leg which had belonged to Sir Douglas Bader was put up for sale. His widow was selling memorabilia to raise money to buy herself a house.
9. Also in 1989, the Episcopal church appointed its first female bishop.
10. In 1886, the first successful gasoline-driven car, the Motor-wagen built by Karl-Friedrich Benz, was patented. It had one cylinder, three wheels and its top speed was 15 miles per hour.

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Willow believes in crystal healing, cosmic  ordering  and the significance of chance  encounters. She believes there's a spiritual  explanation for everything. Except she struggles to find a reason why she can turn herself into  mist and create a wave of energy which can slam a would-be mugger into a wall. Or why the love of  her life left her for a mysterious woman in sunglasses, who then disappeared without trace.  

A chance encounter with Firebolt, leader of the Freedom League superhero team, in a Glastonbury coffee shop, does turn out to be significant. He offers her a new start and the chance to use her powers for good.

Servant is a Christian who has joined the Freedom League in order to use his teleporting power to serve God. He and Willow clash from the start, yet they are drawn inexorably to one another.

When Willow leaves the team abruptly for reasons unknown, Servant knows he must put her out of his mind and find a nice Christian girl to settle down with. He is about to propose to devout and straight-laced Ruth, when Willow returns and turns his entire world upside down.

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28 January

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 28 January:

1. Born on this date in 1457 was Henry VII, founder of the Tudor dynasty in England. He is responsible for the term "baker's dozen", because he ordered the beheading of bakers who sold underweight loaves of Bread. Bakers would throw in an extra loaf to be on the safe side.
2. This date in 814 saw the death of Holy Roman Emperor Charlemange aged 72. At Charlemagne’s death there were eclipses of Sun and Moon, and a seven-day black spot on the sun. His palace at Aix-la-Chapelle trembled, and the basilica in which he was buried was struck by Lightning. Shortly before his death the word princeps (or leader – part of the emperor’s title) faded from an inscription on the basilica.
3. In 1999 A flock of Sheep knocked a British farmer’s wife to her death when she rode into their field with a bale of hay on the back of a power bike. They knocked her and the bike over the edge of a 100 foot quarry.
4. In 1754 Horace Walpole in a letter to Sir Horace Mann, explaining how he coined the word ‘‘serendipity’’. He said he'd based it on the title of a fairy story, The Three Princes of Serendip, because the princes "were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of". 
5. An ice storm lasting five days began on this date in 1940. Rain fell and instantly froze. Frozen railway points and icy roads brought transport to a standstill; birds fell out of the sky as their wings froze in mid flight, and wild ponies in Wales were entombed in ice.
6. The US space program's worst disaster to that date occurred in 1986. The Space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after lift-off from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crew members. The cause was later found to be a failure of a booster rocket O-rings due to cold weather. 
7. In 1896 Walter Arnold of Kent became the first British motorist to receive a fine for speeding. At that time the speed limit was 2 mph in a built-up area. Arnold was doing 8 mph. Unfortunately for him, he happened to pass the local policeman’s house, and the officer happened to be looking out of the window at the time and had a quick reaction time. He pursued Mr Arnold on a bicycle for five miles, so he could slap a fine on him: the princely sum of one shilling (5p).
8. In 1807 London’s Pall Mall became the first street to be illuminated by gaslight.
9. In 1841 James Clark Ross discovered the world’s most southerly volcano, Mt Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica.
10. Also in 1841, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh explorer, and journalist was born. He is famous for finding David Livingstone and greeting him with the words, “Dr Livingstone, I presume?”

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Willow believes in crystal healing, cosmic  ordering  and the significance of chance  encounters. She believes there's a spiritual  explanation for everything. Except she struggles to find a reason why she can turn herself into  mist and create a wave of energy which can slam a would-be mugger into a wall. Or why the love of  her life left her for a mysterious woman in sunglasses, who then disappeared without trace.  

A chance encounter with Firebolt, leader of the Freedom League superhero team, in a Glastonbury coffee shop, does turn out to be significant. He offers her a new start and the chance to use her powers for good.

Servant is a Christian who has joined the Freedom League in order to use his teleporting power to serve God. He and Willow clash from the start, yet they are drawn inexorably to one another.

When Willow leaves the team abruptly for reasons unknown, Servant knows he must put her out of his mind and find a nice Christian girl to settle down with. He is about to propose to devout and straight-laced Ruth, when Willow returns and turns his entire world upside down.

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27 January

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 27 January:

1. In 1992, Clinton Richard Doan, aged 35, died when he opened the fridge in his garage in Ketchum, Idaho. A Beer keg ruptured, shot upwards and hit him in the head.
2. In 1967 Francis Chichester, the round-the-world yachtsman, was knighted on the quay at Greenwich. The sword used had belonged to another seaman, Sir Francis Drake.
3. In 1958, Little Richard abandoned his music career and enrolled in the Oakwood Bible College in Huntsville, Alabama, inspired by a near-death experience. While on tour, his plane had caught fire over the Philippines. He prayed to God to let him live, and God obliged.
4. In 1926, John Logie Baird of Scotland demonstrated the first television set, the iconoscope, a mechanical scanning system, to members of the Royal Institution in London.
5. In 1967, a fire in the capsule of Apollo 1 killed 3 astronauts, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White and Roger B. Chaffee. An electrical fault ignited pure Oxygen during a ground test at Cape Kennedy, burning all three astronauts to death.
6. In 1944, Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland.
7. In 1984, Madonna made her first UK appearance when she appeared on Channel 4's The Tube performing Holiday. The show was broadcast live from the Hacienda Club in Manchester.
8. In 2011, a small explosion occurred in the basement of a hotel in Davos, Switzerland, near to where the World Economic Forum was taking place. No one was injured and a faulty boiler was found to be the cause.
9. In 1883, during a severe storm in the Bristol Channel the steamship Agnes Jack, of Liverpool, was wrecked on Port Eynon Point, South Wales, with the loss of all hands. Twelve hours later another steamer, the James Gray of Whitby, and her crew suffered the same fate on the notorious Tusker Rock near Porthcawl. However the incident which stirred the most emotion that night was the loss of the Mumbles lifeboat Wolverhampton attempting to rescue the crew of a Prussian barque wrecked on Mumbles Head. Four lifeboatmen were drowned. At the height of the storm Jessie Ace and her sister Margaret Wright, daughters of Ace the Lighthouse keeper, went down to the sound, tied their shawls together, entered the sea and pulled two of the lifeboat crew to safety. They became known as the Grace Darlings of Wales.
10. In 1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the greatest composers in history, was born.

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Willow believes in crystal healing, cosmic  ordering  and the significance of chance  encounters. She believes there's a spiritual  explanation for everything. Except she struggles to find a reason why she can turn herself into  mist and create a wave of energy which can slam a would-be mugger into a wall. Or why the love of  her life left her for a mysterious woman in sunglasses, who then disappeared without trace.  

A chance encounter with Firebolt, leader of the Freedom League superhero team, in a Glastonbury coffee shop, does turn out to be significant. He offers her a new start and the chance to use her powers for good.

Servant is a Christian who has joined the Freedom League in order to use his teleporting power to serve God. He and Willow clash from the start, yet they are drawn inexorably to one another.

When Willow leaves the team abruptly for reasons unknown, Servant knows he must put her out of his mind and find a nice Christian girl to settle down with. He is about to propose to devout and straight-laced Ruth, when Willow returns and turns his entire world upside down.

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26 January

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 26 January:

Bessie Coleman

1. Bessie Coleman, the first black pilot, was born on this date in 1892. Denied entry to aviation school in the US, she worked as a manicurist to pay her way to Paris where she earned her pilot’s licence. Returning to the US, she became a stunt pilot and was greatly admired. She died in a plane crash during a practice session in 1926.
2. In 1933 David O. Selznick approved the results of Fred Astaire's screen test, "in spite of his enormous ears and bad chin line."
3. In 1969 The Washington Post reported the fall of hundreds of ducks from the sky over St Mary's City, Maryland, USA, all showing multiple rib fractures and severe haemorrhages acquired before they hit the ground.
4. In 1995, two burglars rang the police to complain about a dangerous electric wire fence, which burnt them and prevented them breaking into a house.
5. In 1962 Bishop Burke of the Buffalo, New York Catholic Diocese banned the Twist from any Catholic school, parish or youth event.
6. In 1984, Michael Jackson was filming a commercial for Pepsi-Cola when an accidental flare explosion ignited the hair spray which had just been applied to his hair. The conflagration that followed produced second-degree burns on his head and neck. Brother Tito doused the fire with Coca Cola.
7. In 1784, Benjamin Franklin wrote to his daughter expressing unhappiness over the choice of the eagle as the symbol of America. He said the Bald eagle was "a bird of bad moral character" who lived "by sharping and robbing"and expressed his own preference: the Turkey.
8. After the opening of John Millington Synge's Playboy of the Western World, in 1907, police were called to Dublin's Abbey Theatre when a riot broke out because the audience took offence at the ‘foul language’. The riots continued for a week, but the show went on, heavily guarded by police.
9. In 1980, Mary Decker became the first woman to run a mile in under 4 minutes.
10. In 1838 Tennessee became the first state to enact a prohibition law. Authorities argued that that alcohol was dangerous to your health – because alcoholic fumes could ignite inside your body and set fire to your liver.

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Willow believes in crystal healing, cosmic  ordering  and the significance of chance  encounters. She believes there's a spiritual  explanation for everything. Except she struggles to find a reason why she can turn herself into  mist and create a wave of energy which can slam a would-be mugger into a wall. Or why the love of  her life left her for a mysterious woman in sunglasses, who then disappeared without trace.  

A chance encounter with Firebolt, leader of the Freedom League superhero team, in a Glastonbury coffee shop, does turn out to be significant. He offers her a new start and the chance to use her powers for good.

Servant is a Christian who has joined the Freedom League in order to use his teleporting power to serve God. He and Willow clash from the start, yet they are drawn inexorably to one another.

When Willow leaves the team abruptly for reasons unknown, Servant knows he must put her out of his mind and find a nice Christian girl to settle down with. He is about to propose to devout and straight-laced Ruth, when Willow returns and turns his entire world upside down.

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25 January

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 25 January:

Anne Boleyn

1. In 1753 a woman named Ruth Pierce and three friends got together to buy a sack of Wheat. Two of them paid up, but Ruth insisted she had already paid her share. “May I drop dead if I have not,” she declared. No sooner had the words left her mouth than she fell down and died, with the money hidden in her hand. This story is recorded on a stone monument in the Market Square at Devizes, Wiltshire.
2. In 1533 the Bishop of Lichfield secretly married King Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, the second of his six wives. She was pregnant with Queen Elizabeth I at the time.
3. A bottle of Old Tobermory Whiskey, believed to be the oldest in existence at 130 years old, was found in a Mull pub on this date in 1999.
4. In 2011 A former Miss Canada finalist became the first person in the world to graduate with a Masters degree in The Beatles. Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy, 53, was one of the first students to sign up for the course when it launched at Liverpool Hope University in March 2009.
5. In 1895 the first hockey international was held at Rhyl. Wales lost 3-0 to Ireland.
6. In 1989, John Cleese won damages for libel at the High Court over an article in the Daily Mirror, which claimed he had become like Basil Fawlty.
7. In 1999 a games addict named John Stirling changed his name by deed poll to Sony Playstation.
8. The world’’s first “theft-proof pocket” was patented by John Brown in 1812. Its efficacy lay in reinforcement with chains, metal rings, bolts and screws to deter pick-pockets.
9. In 1991, a 13 year old boy in Piru, California, was arrested for throwing a Chihuahua at his mother.
10. In 2002 a London court ruled against a Chinese shopkeeper who'd claimed that poor feng shui would ruin his business if he was forced to relocate.

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Willow believes in crystal healing, cosmic  ordering  and the significance of chance  encounters. She believes there's a spiritual  explanation for everything. Except she struggles to find a reason why she can turn herself into  mist and create a wave of energy which can slam a would-be mugger into a wall. Or why the love of  her life left her for a mysterious woman in sunglasses, who then disappeared without trace.  

A chance encounter with Firebolt, leader of the Freedom League superhero team, in a Glastonbury coffee shop, does turn out to be significant. He offers her a new start and the chance to use her powers for good.

Servant is a Christian who has joined the Freedom League in order to use his teleporting power to serve God. He and Willow clash from the start, yet they are drawn inexorably to one another.

When Willow leaves the team abruptly for reasons unknown, Servant knows he must put her out of his mind and find a nice Christian girl to settle down with. He is about to propose to devout and straight-laced Ruth, when Willow returns and turns his entire world upside down.

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24 January

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 24 January:

1. This date in the year 76 saw the birth of Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus), the Roman Emperor whose defensive policies led to the building of Hadrian's Wall on the border between Scotland and England.
2. In the year 41, the emperor Gaius Caesar, also known as Caligula, was murdered by Cassius Charea, captain of his bodyguards as he left the Palatine Games. After the attack he regained consciousness and yelled, “I am still alive!” which was a cue for the assassins to come back and finish the job properly. Caligula was 29.
3. It’s a good date for bears in pop music. In 1957 Elvis Presley recorded Teddy Bear, and in 1960 Johnny Preston hit Number One on the pop chart with Running Bear.
4. In 1958 a band called The Quarry Men performed at the Cavern Club, in Liverpool. It was the band's only performance at the club, under that name, anyway. Three years later they appeared again under their new name: The Beatles.
5. In 1957 a hailstone weighing half a kilo fell in front of a greengrocer’s shop in Northwood, Middlesex.
6. In 1888, Jacob L. Wortman of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania patented the Typewriter ribbon.
7. In 1892, a battle broke out at Mengo, Uganda when French missionaries attacked British missionaries. So much for brotherly love!
8. In 1972, a Japanese soldier named Shoichi Yokoi was found on the island of Guam, having spent 28 years hiding in the jungle thinking the second world war was still going on. He’d survived on nuts, berries, frogs, snails, and rats, and wove clothing from tree bark. Received as a national hero by the Japanese people, his first words upon arriving in Tokyo were, "It is with much embarrassment that I return."
9. In 1908 the first Boy Scout troop was organised in England by its founder, Robert Baden-Powell, a general in the British Army.
10. In 2018, a dozen camels were disqualified from a beauty pageant at the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival, near Riyadh, after reports in the media about injections with botox. A veterinarian was caught performing plastic surgery to make the camels more attractive. Rules prohibit changing the natural form of participating Camels.

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The Power of Love

Willow believes in crystal healing, cosmic  ordering  and the significance of chance  encounters. She believes there's a spiritual  explanation for everything. Except she struggles to find a reason why she can turn herself into  mist and create a wave of energy which can slam a would-be mugger into a wall. Or why the love of  her life left her for a mysterious woman in sunglasses, who then disappeared without trace.  

A chance encounter with Firebolt, leader of the Freedom League superhero team, in a Glastonbury coffee shop, does turn out to be significant. He offers her a new start and the chance to use her powers for good.

Servant is a Christian who has joined the Freedom League in order to use his teleporting power to serve God. He and Willow clash from the start, yet they are drawn inexorably to one another.

When Willow leaves the team abruptly for reasons unknown, Servant knows he must put her out of his mind and find a nice Christian girl to settle down with. He is about to propose to devout and straight-laced Ruth, when Willow returns and turns his entire world upside down.

Available from Amazon:

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