21 March

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 21 March:

1. Two well known composers were born on this date. In 1685, Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer and organist whose works include the Brandenburg concertos, and in 1839, Modest P Mussorgsky, Russian composer whose works include Night on Bald Mountain.
2. On this date in 2007, Kevin Whitrick, aged 42, became the first person to commit suicide live on The Internet. Watched by about 60 other users in a chatroom where people "have a go at each other", he placed a rope around a joist and around his neck, then stepped off a chair. Other users thought this was a prank, until his face started to turn blue. Some people in the chat room egged him on, but others tried desperately to save him. One of them called the police, who arrived at the scene two minutes later but by then Whitrick was already dead.
3. The first ever Star Wars film was released in the US on this date in 1977.
4. In 2011, surgeons at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, performed the first full face transplant in the United States.
5. In 1969 John Lennon and his new wife Yoko Ono staged their ‘Bed-in for Peace’ at the Amsterdam Hilton.
6. The results of an internet poll of who people wanted as their ambassador to welcome aliens to planet earth were in on this date in 2004, following the discovery of signs of water on Mars. The favourite to represent the human race was Ozzy Osbourne.
7. Alcatraz, the world's most secure prison, closed on this date in 1963. Only one man had ever escaped from the prison in its 29 years of operation, only to be arrested on reaching the mainland. Al Capone and the famous ‘Birdman of Alcatraz’ were two of its best known inmates. The last inmate to leave Alcatraz was Frank Wathernam. Let's hope he remembered to turn the lights off.
8. The world's longest wheelchair journey began on this date in 1985. Rick Hansen left Vancouver in his wheelchair on a journey that would take him around the world in just over 2 years, raising $20 million for spinal cord research.
9. The world's longest card throw took place on this date in 2002. Magician Rick Smith Jr. of Cleveland threw a Playing card 65.96 meters (216 ft 4 inches).
10. In 2006, Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey in San Francisco, California.

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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