10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 17 January:
- This date in 1706 was the birth date of Benjamin Franklin. He not only helped to draft the US Declaration of Independence, but also discovered that Lightning was a form of Electricity, and invented the rocking chair, Bifocals, street lights, lightning rods, stoves, and harmonicas.
- In 1874, Chang and Eng Bunker, the original Siamese Twins, died within three hours of each other at the age of 62. The conjoined twin brothers had each married, and fathered 10 and 11 children respectively.
- In 1912, Captain Robert Falcon Scott reached the South Pole, only to find Amundsen had beaten him by one month. On the same date in 1989 Murden and Metz became the first women to reach South Pole overland (on skis).
- 17 January 1987 was a bad day for Football league. The weather cancelled all but 10 scheduled matches in the UK.
- In 1536, Henry VIII, 44, fell from his horse while jousting and was unconscious for several hours. Experts believed this triggered his mental instability.
- In 1989, the trial began at the Old Bailey for the participants in Britain’s biggest armed robbery. The robbery, described as being like ‘a clip from a Carry On film’, involved £40 million in cash and illegal drugs at a Knightsbridge deposit centre. The manager admitted to being associated with the gang.
- In 1940, The River Thames froze over for first time since 1880.
- E.C. Segar introduced Popeye The Sailor Man in his Thimble Theater comic strip on this date in 1929. His first appearance was as a guest, but readers demanded to see more of him and Popeye was eventually given top billing.
- On this date in 2006, Goldenpalace.com agreed to pay William Shatner $25,000.00 for his recently passed kidney stone. The money was donated to Habitat for Humanity, a charity which builds houses for the needy. The kidney stone paid for half a house.
- In 2018, a drone rescued two swimmers off the coast of Lennox Head, New South Wales in Australia by dropping a safety device to them. It was the first sea rescue carried out by a drone.
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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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