10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 30 May:
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| Christopher Marlowe |
On this date in 1968, The Beatles began recording The White Album.
In 1431, Joan of Arc, a peasant girl born in Eastern France, who'd led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, claiming divine guidance, was burned at the stake at the age of 19.
In 2006, at a Christie's auction in Hong Kong, casino resort developer Steve Wynn from Las Vegas bought a 600 year old Ming vase for $10,122,558.00, making it the world's most expensive vase. He donated it to a museum in Macau.
This date in 1593 saw the death of Christopher Marlowe at the age of 29. The dramatist and government agent, whose works include Tamburlaine and Doctor Faustus, was fatally stabbed with his own dagger in an argument over a tavern bill.
In 2013, an Asteroid named QE2 was discovered to have its own moon.
In 2000, Gloria Terrell, aged 43, was detained by security guards at a shop in Detroit, suspected of shoplifting a pair of Shoes. She made a run for it and hid in a garbage compactor, where she was crushed to death when workers returned from a break and started the machine.
Joni Phelps, aged 54, became the first blind woman to climb Mt. McKinley on this date in 1993. She'd been blind since she was 30. She and her two sons had taken 16 days to reach the summit.
Think your wedding is beset by disasters? Spare a thought for Amadeus I and Donna Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, whose wedding on this day in 1867 was almost certainly much worse. The best man shot himself. The Palace Gatekeeper slit his throat. The King's aide died after falling from his Horse. The bride's wardrobe mistress hanged herself. The colonel leading the wedding procession collapsed from sunstroke. The stationmaster was crushed to death under the wheels of the honeymoon train. Puts the car arriving late and the youngest bridesmaid puking over her dress into perspective.
In 1992, Southfork, the Ewing family ranch from the TV show Dallas was sold for $2.6 million to one Rex Maughan.
In 1925, Percy Fawcett, a British explorer, entered the jungle on the Brazil-Bolivia border in search of a lost city. He vanished. Several rescue parties went to look for him, and also vanished.
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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