10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 24 January:
- This date in the year 76 saw the birth of Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus), the Roman Emperor whose defensive policies led to the building of Hadrian's Wall on the border between Scotland and England.
- In the year 41, the emperor Gaius Caesar, also known as Caligula, was murdered by Cassius Charea, captain of his bodyguards as he left the Palatine Games. After the attack he regained consciousness and yelled, “I am still alive!” which was a cue for the assassins to come back and finish the job properly. Caligula was 29.
- It’s a good date for bears in pop music. In 1957 Elvis Presley recorded Teddy Bear, and in 1960 Johnny Preston hit Number One on the pop chart with Running Bear.
- In 1958 a band called The Quarry Men performed at the Cavern Club, in Liverpool. It was the band's only performance at the club, under that name, anyway. Three years later they appeared again under their new name: The Beatles.
- In 1957 a hailstone weighing half a kilo fell in front of a greengrocer’s shop in Northwood, Middlesex.
- In 1888, Jacob L. Wortman of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania patented the Typewriter ribbon.
- In 1892, a battle broke out at Mengo, Uganda when French missionaries attacked British missionaries. So much for brotherly love!
- In 1972, a Japanese soldier named Shoichi Yokoi was found on the island of Guam, having spent 28 years hiding in the jungle thinking the second world war was still going on. He’d survived on nuts, berries, frogs, snails, and rats, and wove clothing from tree bark. Received as a national hero by the Japanese people, his first words upon arriving in Tokyo were, "It is with much embarrassment that I return."
- In 1908 the first Boy Scout troop was organised in England by its founder, Robert Baden-Powell, a general in the British Army.
- In 2018, a dozen camels were disqualified from a beauty pageant at the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival, near Riyadh, after reports in the media about injections with botox. A veterinarian was caught performing plastic surgery to make the camels more attractive. Rules prohibit changing the natural form of participating Camels.
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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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