13 March

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 13 March: 

Uranus

1. Born on this date in 1770 was Daniel Lambert, who weighed 336 kg when he died. He made a killing in the pubs of Stamford, where he would challenge people to a race, with the proviso that he had a small head start. People no doubt thought they were onto a good bet, racing against a fat bloke. Daniel had a strategy, however, to ensure he would always win. He would lead his opponents down the narrow passageways of Stamford, and because he was so fat, nobody could pass him.
2. In 1999, in New Jersey, a father and his 10 year old son had a row about who had stolen some cake icing. The father challenged his son to stab him with a kitchen knife if he hated him so much, even putting the knife back in the boy’s hand when he put it down. The son then stabbed his father to death.
3. In 1943, there was an attempt to assassinate Hitler by disillusioned German officers, known as Operation Flash. They planted a parcel bomb on the plane he was flying in, wired to explode over Minsk. The bomb failed to detonate.
4. The first cartoon showing the character "Uncle Sam" appeared in The New York Lantern on this date in 1852. Uncle Sam was based on a real US officer who served in the war of 1812, name of Samuel Wilson.
5. In 2003, the journal Nature reported that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human had been found in Italy.
6. In 1887, teenager Chester Greenwood of Farmington, Maine, received a patent for earmuffs.
7. In 2013, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina was elected as the new pope, the first pope from Latin America and the first Jesuit pope. He took the papal name Pope Francis.
8. In 1781, Sir William Herschel saw what he thought was a comet, but it turned out to be a planet, Uranus, 7th from the Sun and the first planet to be discovered using a Telescope.
9. In 2012, Dallas Seavey became the youngest ever winner of the Iditarod sled dog race.
10. In 1996, Peruvian drug dealer Abelardo Cachique Rivera protested at the length of his sentence of 12 years. Unlike most, though, he wasn’t complaining that it was too much, but that his “status as a major drug trafficker” justified a longer stint in prison.

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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