26 February

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 26 February:

1. This date in 1802 was the birth date of Victor Hugo, French writer whose best-known works are the novels Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (sometimes translated as The Hunchback of Notre Dame). He once said, "Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come."
2. Also born on this date, in 1932, was the country singer Johnny Cash, aka “The Man in Black”. His hits include A Boy Named Sue, A thing called love, Ring of Fire, I Walk the Line and Ghost Riders in the Sky.
3. In 1997, Larry Blanchfield, 31, a prisoner at Delaware Correctional Centre, was crushed to death as he tried to escape in a garbage truck.
4. In France, on this date in 2008, a 71 year old pensioner met a shocking end when he tried to illuminate his garden with power siphoned from the National Grid. He opened a major power junction box at the front of his house, intending to hard-wire a cable to his garden shed. His mistake? Trying to do this in the middle of a downpour.
5. In 1848, Karl Marx, aged 29, published The Communist Manifesto.
6. A tortoise named Esmerelda weighed in at 657lb, in Seychelles on this date in 1989, and was officially declared the world's heaviest tortoise.
7. The first organised game of Cricket in Australia was played on this date in 1830. The civilians defeated the 57th Regiment in Hyde Park.
8. In 1797, the Bank of England issued the first £1 note.
9. In 1256, King Henry III of England commanded the Sheriff of London to have built “at our Tower of London one house of forty feet long, and twenty feet deep, for our Elephant”. Henry's elephant was a gift from Louis IX of France, and the first elephant to be seen in England since Claudius’s war elephant during the Roman invasion of 43 CE.
10. In 1933, the ground-breaking ceremony for the Golden Gate Bridge was held at Crissy Field, San Francisco. 

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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