10 March

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 10 March:

1. In 1948, the Czech foreign minister Jan Masaryk died when he fell out of a window at his apartment in Prague. His death was ruled at first to be suicide but later the communists changed the verdict to say that he had "fallen accidentally while sitting in a yoga position on a window sill to combat insomnia".
2. The first royal wedding at Windsor Castle took place in St. George's chapel on this date in 1863, when King Edward VII married Queen Alexandra.
3. In 1681 English Quaker William Penn received a charter from Charles II, making him the sole proprietor of the colonial American territory which would become the state of Pennsylvania.
4. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel recorded The Sounds Of Silence on this date in 1964. They recorded it as an acoustic duo without accompaniment. It wasn't until record company producers added electric Guitar, bass and Drums, without their knowledge that the song became a hit.
5. In 1891, the word “blizzard” was first used to describe a snowstorm.
6. In 1996, scientists in Chicago announced their discovery that women who drink Coffee are less likely to commit suicide than those who don’t.
7. In 2012, hundreds of nude cyclists took to the streets in Lima, Peru, to protest unsafe road conditions.
8. In 2001, someone stole a hand from the frieze from the temple of Apollo at Bassae while it was on display at the British Museum. I expect the thief thought it would come in handy some day.
9. Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call on this date in 1876, in Boston. It was to his assistant, Thomas Watson, who was in the next room. The first words to be uttered over a telephone were: "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you."
10. The first Crufts dog show was held in London on this date in 1886. Only terriers were allowed to enter. Ironically, the founder of the show, Charles Cruft, never owned a dog: just a cat and a canary.

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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