25 March

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 25 March:

Venice

1. Today was a good day for births of stars of classic TV shows. Born this date in 1897 was John Laurie, Scottish actor best known for his role as Private James Frazer, the pessimistic undertaker and Home Guard soldier in Dad's Army. 1920 saw the birth of Patrick Troughton, actor best known as the second incarnation of Doctor Who, and in 1943 Paul Michael Glaser, the American actor who played Starsky in Starsky and Hutch was born.
2. Some big names in the music world were born on this date, too. In 1942, Aretha Franklin, US soul singer whose hits include Respect and I Say a Little Prayer, who once said, "I'm a big woman. I need big hair," and in 1947 Reginald Kenneth Dwight, better known these days as Sir Elton John, singer, pianist, and songwriter, whose hits include Crocodile Rock, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me and I'm Still Standing. He once said, "It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road, you never know when you'll be invited to something really formal."
3. In 1993, an obese man who lived on beans and Cabbage, was found dead in a poorly ventilated room with a high concentration of methane in his blood. It was concluded he’d been poisoned by his own flatulence.
4. This date in 421 was the date the City of Venice was founded, according to tradition, as it was the date of the dedication of the first church in the city, San Giacomo.
5. In 2015, Zayn Malik left One Direction.
6. An anomalous weather event on this date in 2018 due to dust from a sandstorm in the Sahara, led to Orange snow in several Eastern European countries, including Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania and Russia. I know you shouldn't eat Yellow Snow, but I don't know the advice on orange snow!
7. In 1655, Dutch physicist and astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, a moon of Saturn.
8. In 1970, Concorde made its first supersonic flight.
9. In 1997 George Bush became the first US president to make parachute jump, fulfilling a promise he'd made after being shot down in 1944, that one day he would make a jump voluntarily.
10. On this day in 1998, the shit hit the fan, quite literally, in Sri Lanka. Appearing in court for theft, Subhasinghe Premasiri threw a bag of human faeces at police. He missed, and hit, well, the fan, with predictable results.

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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