10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 7 January:
- In 1894 One of the earliest motion picture experiments took place at the Thomas Edison studio. Comedian Fred Ott was filmed Sneezing, comprising 2 seconds of film. The Library of Congress issued the first copyright to W.K. Dickson for it.
- In 1958, Ant farms first went on sale.
- At Bayreuth University in West Germany, in 1988, Professor Frank Pobell and his team of scientists announced they’d achieved the lowest ever temperature in a laboratory. They’d succeeded in cooling a block of metal to 12 millionths of a degree above absolute zero.
- In 1785 French balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard made the first air-crossing of the English Channel from the English coast to France. It wasn’t plain sailing. Mr. Blanchard and his American passenger, Dr. John Jeffries, had to shed all of their clothes when the wind died and the balloon’s airbag cooled too quickly over the sea.
- In 1610 Italian astronomer Galileo discovered four of Jupiter's moons with his new invention, the Telescope. He named them Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.
- The first UFO related fatality occurred on this date in 1948. The US Air National Guard investigated reports of a UFO over the town of Maysville. Captain Thomas Mantell radioed that the craft was "metallic and tremendous in size". At 3:18 PM Mantell's F-51 went down. Was he killed by aliens, or merely an unfortunate encounter with a weather balloon?
- On this date in 1929, two well-known comic strip heroes first appeared in newspapers: Tarzan and Buck Rogers.
- In 1782 The first commercial bank in the United States, the Bank of North America, opened in Philadelphia.
- In 1980 a nun was elected mayor of Dubuque, Iowa, USA.
- On this date in 1611, the second trial of Countess Elizabeth Bathory, took place. She was accused of "satanic terror", killing young girls and drinking their Blood. She was found guilty and walled up in her tower.
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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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