Ten weird and wonderful things which happened on January 3rd:
- Born on this date in 106 BC was Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman, author and philosopher. After Caesar was assassinated, he made speeches supporting republicanism, and was eventually killed for his outspokenness. He summed up the era he was living in thus: “Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”
- Another famous birth on this date in 1892 was JRR (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien, author most famous as author of the fantasy novels The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. “Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards,” he advised, “for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
- In 1959 President Eisenhower signed a proclamation admitting Alaska to the Union. It become the 49th and largest state at over 570,000 square miles.
- In 1841 the whaler Acushnet gained a famous passenger at Fairhaven, Massachusetts. He was a young man of 22 named Herman Melville, who was inspired by his journey to write the novel Moby Dick.
- In 1979 In south Florida, Filberto Cardenas claimed to have been abducted by aliens for 90 minutes who dumped him 16 miles away from where they’d picked him up.
- In 1496 Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tested a flying machine.
- In 1882 Oscar Wilde said he had "nothing to declare but my genius" to US customs when entering America.
- In 1695 Henry Winstanley lost his ship Constant when a gale blew it onto the Eddystone Rock. It was the second ship he’d lost this way within a year. Winstanley decided enough was enough and decided to build a Lighthouse there, the famous Eddystone Lighthouse.
- It’s a day for earth moving. In 1582 there was a strange movement of earth in the valley of the Cerf Blanc Dorset, when a piece of earth suddenly moved forty yards, leaving a large hole. It moved into a field which was surrounded by hedges and had Alder and Willow trees growing in it. The same hedges and the trees are still standing today. In 1853, a peat bog in Enagh Monmore, Ireland, nearly a mile in circumference and several feet deep, moved over sloping ground and ended up, twenty-four hours later, a quarter of a mile away.
- In the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt, the English explorer Howard Carter discovered the sarcophagus of Tutenkhamen on this date in 1924.
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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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