10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 16 January:
- On this date in 1901 Frank Zamboni, inventor of the ice surfacing machine was born.
- In 1547 Ivan IV the Terrible, crowned himself first tsar of Russia at the age of 17.
- In 1957 The Cavern Club opened in a former wine cellar on Matthew Street in Liverpool. The club became famous through having a house band which became mega-famous – The Beatles.
- In 2005 a woman named Molly and her husband entered a second floor hotel room in Fort Myers, Florida. Seeing the safety railing on the patio, Molly called to her husband, “Look what I can still do!” She did a handstand on the railing, slipped and fell over the other side to her death.
- Two James Bond movies began shooting on 16 January: Dr No. in 1962 and Goldeneye in 1995, starring Pierce Brosnan as the new 007.
- In 1769, The Haymarket Theatre, London was filled with a crowd who’d come to see a magician who claimed he could get inside a quart tavern bottle ‘and there sing several songs’. The conjurer didn’t show up, which ticked off the crowd so much that they rioted and burned the theatre.
- In 1930, the Antwerp merchant ship Romanie was wrecked in Cornwall in thick fog. The writer Daphne du Maurier happened to be out walking on a cliff path at the time, and the wreck inspired shipwreck in her novel, Rebecca.
- In 1920, the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution took effect, prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages.
- In 2005, Adriana Iliescu, gave birth at the age of 66, becoming the oldest woman in the world to do so.
- In 2006, Leyan Lo, 20, a California Institute of Technology student, claimed the new world record by solving the Rubik's cube in 11.13 seconds.
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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.
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