10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 8 April:
- This date has been good for odds defying births. In 1996 David Lammon's wife Starr gave birth to a third daughter on her birthday. Both previous daughters had also been born on her birthday. That's a 49 million to one defiance of odds. A year later, in 1997, a baby boy was born to Shahana Choudhry on British Airways flight BA1444 from Dhaka to Heathrow, 13 months after another baby boy had been born on the same flight.
- It's been a bad day for remarkable animals. In 1975 Joey, the world’s oldest canary, died at the age of 34; and in 1988 Totally Awesome, the world’s largest recorded toad, shuffled off this mortal coil at Des Moines Zoo, Iowa.
- Instant karma happened on this date in 1999, in Georgia, when a 45 year old man called William decided to kill his wife. He doused her with petrol and set her on fire. So it would look like an accident, he pulled out a gas line, which blew up and killed him.
- In 1967 Sandie Shaw won the Eurovision song contest in Vienna with the song Puppet On A String. She was the first UK female artist to win the contest.
- In 1871, Robert Louis Stevenson, at the age of 21, went for a walk with his father and broke it to him that he was abandoning a career in engineering to devote himself to writing.
- In 1978 David Moon of Meridianville, Alabama, set world record – eating 14 quarter-pound Hamburgers in 28 minutes.
- In 1838, Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s 236 ft steamship Great Western sailed from Bristol on her maiden voyage to New York, the day before his 32nd birthday. She would become the first steamship to make regular Atlantic crossings. The journey took 15 days.
- In 1776, the first fire escape was patented. It consisted of a wicker basket on a pulley and chain.
- In 1986, the people of Carmel, California made Clint Eastwood's day when they elected him as mayor.
- In 1997, in the midst of the Mad Cow Disease debacle, when nobody wanted British Cows, a Cambodian newspaper came up with a creative solution. Ship the animals to Cambodia and let them roam free, so that they'd detonate the millions of land mines littering the country. "The plan is simple, practical, and will make mince-meat of the problem overnight," the paper said.
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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