10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 8 January:
- On 8 January 1935 Elvis Presley, "The King of Rock 'n' Roll" or "The King" was born. In 1946 he received an $8 guitar for his 11th birthday. On his 21st birthday in 1956 his single, Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog, reached number one in the charts and stayed there for a record 11 weeks. On his 22nd birthday, he took the army pre-induction exam in Memphis and passed. On his birthday in 1973 he sued his wife Priscilla for divorce and recorded the song Separate Ways.
- Another music icon who celebrated his birthday on this date was David Bowie, born in 1947. It has been said that he had Heterochromia, a condition where a person's Eyes are different colours. That wasn't the case. The reason one eye looked different from the other was that one eye had a permanently dilated pupil. the result of a fight he had at school with his friend George Underwood over a girl.
- Another birthday, in 1926 was the US Comedian Morton Supman, also known as Soupy Sales. He got into big trouble when he suggested that children listening to his show should "...go into mommy's purse or daddy's wallet and find all the little green pieces of paper and send them to me!"
- In 1995, inventor Hector Penna came to a sticky end. He’d spent four years developing a powerful factory cooling fan. He was working on his invention in his laboratory in San Julian, Argentina, when his wife walked in. She flicked on the light switch, not realising he’d connected it to the fan. He was decapitated by the blades.
- In 1886 The Severn Railway Tunnel, Britain's longest, was opened.
- On this date in 1992 US President George Bush ignored his doctor’s advice to stay home in bed and attended a formal dinner anyway. He vomited in the lap of the Japanese prime minister and collapsed to the floor.
- In 1999, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair helped save a Danish tourist from drowning in the Seychelles. Mr Blair and his bodyguard were in a boat off shore when they spotted the man being swept out to sea. They hauled the man aboard, probably saving his life. The tourist, however, had no idea who he’d just been rescued by.
- In 1955 the potential importance of the decision as to what to wear for work was demonstrated to catastrophic effect when a Swedish munitions factory blew up – the explosion was caused by a spark of static electricity from a female worker’s nylon underwear. She was literally dressed to kill.
- In 1800 Victor of Aveyron, or The Wild Boy of Aveyron, aged about 12, emerged from the forest. He’d apparently lived his entire childhood alone in the woods before being found wandering near St Sernin sur Rance, France three years earlier. He was captured and escaped several times. It was thought he emerged on this date because he remembered the kindness of the woman who took care of him in captivity.
- In 1821 one Mr. Huddy, aged 96, postmaster of Lismore, England, travelled from Lismore to Fermoy in an oyster-tub drawn by a Pig, a Badger, two Cats, a goose and a Hedgehog, wearing a large red nightcap and carrying a pig-driver's whip in one hand, and a cow's horn in the other. Why? He’d lost a bet. The nature of the bet he lost isn’t known.
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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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