5 March

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 5 March:

Henry II

1. King Henry II, the first Plantagenet king of England was born on this date in 1133. He established trial by jury in England, and banned Football, believing people were playing it too much and neglecting more important sports such as archery.
2. In 1839, Charlotte Bronte wrote to the Reverend Henry Nussey declining his proposal of marriage, on the grounds that: "I am not the serious, grave, cool-hearted individual you suppose; you would think me romantic and eccentric."
3. In 1989, Michael Anderson Godwin, serving a life sentence for murder after having his death sentence commuted, ended up on an electric chair anyway, by accident or design I don't know. He was sitting on a stainless steel toilet in his cell, bit into headphone wires connected to his television. He was immediately electrocuted.
4. In 2001, two celebrities got done for speeding. Princess Anne received a £400 fine and 5 penalty points for doing 93mph on dual carriageway, while Geri Halliwell received a 42 day ban and £400 fine for doing twice the speed limit.
5. In 2015, Harrison Ford crash-landed his single-engine World War II-era training plane at the Penmar Golf Course, in Venice, Los Angeles, California, just west of the Santa Monica Airport.
6. In 1966, the Kray Twins, Reginald and Ronald, were sentenced to 30 years in prison.
7. In 1868, the Stapler was patented in Birmingham, England by C.H. Gould.
8. In 1985, E.A. "Bud" Olson and his partner Phil Bonzio purchased Bud the pig from Jefferey Roemisch of Hermleigh, Texas for $56,000.00. This made Bud the most expensive Pig in the world.
9. In 2005, Nev Hyman spent $39,535.00 on a 40 foot long surfboard, the longest in the world. Then, at Snapper Rocks, Australia, 47 people got on the board and surfed, smashing the previous record of 14 people on a surfboard.
10. In 2014, an Egyptian papyrus dating back 1,800 years, which had been discovered 100 years previously and was completely illegible, was exposed to infrared sensors, revealing the content to be a letter from a soldier to his family. 

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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