10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 21 May:
This date in 1780 was the birth date of Elizabeth Fry, Prison reformer, a major force behind legislation to make the treatment of prisoners more humane. She has been depicted on the Bank of England £5 note. There were, however, some teething troubles with her note on this date in 2002 when the Bank of England had to suspend its introduction because the serial numbers could be rubbed off the varnished paper.
This date in 1471 saw the death of Henry VI, 49, king of England and France. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he was murdered.
In 1819, the first Bicycles in the United States, called swift walkers were seen for the first time on the streets of New York.
In 1898, the Imperial Wesseldorf wagon factory fixed the first bumper to a car, but it fell off during the first 10 miles of its test run to Vienna.
In 1927, aviator Charles A. Lindbergh completed the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis, He flew 3,610 miles (5,810 kilometers) between Long Island, New York, and Paris, France, in 33 hours, 30 minutes.
Sada Abe, a kind of Japanese Lorena Bobbit, was apprehended on this date in 1936 after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon became one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
There was an Earthquake in England on this date in 1382. Most of the damage occurred in Kent, but it was felt by a sitting of Parliament in London. William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury was presiding at a synod to condemn the doctrines of John Wycliffe in Blackfriars when the earthquake struck. The meeting was suspended, and both parties claimed it was divine intervention on their behalf. Courtenay declared the earthquake a favourable sign of the purification of the earth from erroneous doctrine. “Steeples toppled, buildings fell down, and large waves rolled up the Thames River, overturning ships. The bell tower of Canterbury Cathedral tumbled down”, said one contemporary source.
In 1950 Britain’s longest recorded Tornado twisted from from Berkshire to Norfolk, a distance of 100 miles in over four hours. The sudden drop in pressure caused by the tornado passing over a chicken coop in Linslade plucked the feathers off the chickens. The chickens, however, survived the experience.
In 1884, French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi finished the Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World.
In 1982 a Maryland couple filmed a large animal which they claimed was “Chesapeake Bay Chessie”, a sort of American Loch Ness Monster. Scientists said the image was too blurry to identify it for sure.
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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