6 March

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 6 March:

Davy Crockett

1. This date in 1475 was the birth date of Michelangelo (real name di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni), the Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer who painted the ceiling of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. It took him four years, mostly lying on his back. He also sculpted Pieta and the statue of David in marble. "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free," he said.
2. On the 521^st anniversary of his birth, in 1992, computer users braced for a "virus" known as "Michelangelo," set to trigger on March 6, but only scattered cases of lost files were reported.
3. In 1836, the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, fell to Mexican forces led by Mexican General Antonio Santa Anna after a 13 day siege. Davy Crockett, aged 49, aka King of the Wild Frontier, was killed along with James Bowie and all the other 185 defenders.
4. On this date in 1999 a 64 year old Japanese woman called Ritsuko Yamada killed herself by ingesting "industrial quantities" of Toilet paper, causing death by asphyxiation. She was in prison at the time, suspected of strangling her husband, Takashi, aged 60.
5. In 1930 the first individually packaged frozen foods went on sale in Springfield, Mass. Clarence Birdseye had been inspired to preserve food this way after watching Canadians thawing and eating naturally frozen fish.
6. In 1938, Thomas Garson of Chicago, Illinois ate twenty-two Hamburgers and two quarts of Ice cream in twenty-five minutes to win a bet.
7. This date in 1987 was the date of the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster. 189 people died when water rushed through the open bow doors of the British ferry, causing it to capsize off the Belgian port of Zeebrugge.
8. In 1946, the British food ministry issued a recipe for squirrel pie.
9. It may be known as the Motor City now, but on this date in 1896 when Charles Brady King drove the first "Horseless Carriage" down one of Detroit's main streets and it broke down, onlookers advised him to "get a Horse".
10. In 1999, a couple were discovered making love in a freezer in a 24 hour branch of Sainsbury’s. When the security guard asked what they were doing, they replied, “chilling out”.

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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