10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 27 May:
This date in 1818 was the birth date of Amelia Jenks Bloomer, American women's rights and temperance advocate, who popularised ``bloomers'', the garment which bears her name.
Today was a good day for births of classic horror movie actors. Vincent Price was born on this date in 1911. He's best known for roles in horror films such as House on Haunted Hill, The Comedy of Terrors and Bloodbath at the House of Death. In 1922, Christopher Lee was born. He's famous for portraying villains and his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films. Other notable roles include Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man, Francisco Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun, Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequel trilogy and Saruman in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy. I'm wondering how close we were to the hat trick, since Peter Cushing celebrated his birthday yesterday.
In 1703, Czar Peter the Great founded the city of St Petersburg as Russia's new capital. St. Petersburg is today the most northern city in the world with a population of over one million.
In 1951, the first Goon Show was broadcast by the BBC.
In 1989, Cliff Richard released his 100th single, The Best Of Me.
In 1985, Britain’s longest Daisy chain was made near Chelmsford, Essex. It was 6,980 feet long and took 16 villagers 7 hours to make.
In 1992 "Big Snow" of Deuchar, Queensland, Australia, weighed in as the world's heaviest Chicken at 23 pounds.
On this date in 1931, men reached the stratosphere for the first time. Swiss scientists Auguste Piccard and Charles Kipfer reached 51,775 feet in a sealed-gondola balloon in Germany.
In 1955, President Truman confessed on Ed Murrow's Person to Person show that he believed that the White House was haunted.
In 2016, Barack Obama became the first sitting American President to visit Hiroshima. Obama called for nations to reconsider the development of nuclear weapons and eventually eliminate them.
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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