25 February

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 25 February:

Renoir

1. King Edward II of England was crowned on this date in 1308.
2. In 1904. music critic Louis Elson published a review in the Boston Daily Advertiser about Debussy's Prelude of the Afternoon of a Faun. He clearly wasn't impressed, since he wrote: "The faun must have had a terrible afternoon."
3. In 1904 John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea opened at the Irish National Theatre Society. The audience was so moved that there was no applause.
4. In 1902, the first power-driven Vacuum cleaner was built by Hubert Booth of London. It was a big, clumsy machine which would be parked outside the customer’s house and a long hose put through the window.
5. A hen in America laid the largest Egg on record on this date in 1956. The egg weighed 16oz.
6. In 1974, English couple Veronica and Colin Scargill began a tandem bicycle ride around the world. They completed their 18,020 mile journey on 27 August 1975.
7. In 1981, a New York bank was robbed at gunpoint. The thief got away with $118, but later surrendered to the FBI. The most unusual thing about this crime? The perpetrator was nine years old.
8. In 1570, Elizabeth I of England was excommunicated by Pope Pius V for her persecution of Roman Catholics in England. It was the last such judgement made against a reigning monarch by any pope.
9. In 2013, British explorer Ranulph Fiennes abandoned The Coldest Journey expedition, his attempt to cross Antarctica in the middle of the region's winter, because he had frostbite.
10. This date in 1841 saw the birth of Pierre Auguste Renoir, French Impressionist painter and sculptor whose works include The Dance at the Moulin de la Galette and Girl with a Watering Can. He once said, "A picture should be pleasing, cheerful and yes, pretty. There are plenty of dull things in life without creating any more."

A superhero love story:

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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