10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 10 June:
- On this date in 1921, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, was born on the dining-room table at Mon Repos, his parents' small house on the island of Corfu.
- Exactly a year later in 1922, Frances Ethel Gumm was born. She's better known as the actress Judy Garland. She played Dorothy in The Wizard Of Oz and also appeared in A Star Is Born, Easter Parade and Meet Me In St. Louis.
- Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, drowned in a river while leading an army of the Third Crusade on this date in 1190. He had a Heart attack as he bent to take a drink. The weight of his armour dragged him down and he drowned, even though the river was only a few inches deep. According to German legend, he sits in a mountain cave, his beard grown so long it has circled the table at which he sits twice. When it completes a third revolution, Barbarossa will emerge to fight in Armageddon.
- In 1720, a Mrs Clements of England marketed the first paste-style Mustard. In good time for this date in 1869 when a ship named Agnes arrived in New Orleans with the first ever shipment of frozen beef.
- In 1943, Laszlo Biró, a Hungarian hypnotist, sculptor and journalist, patented his ballpoint pen, which he'd first devised in 1938.
- In 2003, the Spirit Rover was launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission.
- In 1829, the first Oxford/Cambridge Boat Race took place, two miles from Hambledon Lock to Henley Bridge. It was won easily by Oxford.
- In 1931, British mariner, Sir Francis Chichester, the first person to circumnavigate the world solo, spotted “a dull grey-white airship”, which he described in his book, The Lonely Sea and the Sky.
- In 2001, actress Sharon Stone's big toe was crushed by a Komodo dragon at Los Angeles Zoo. It's thought the creature mistook her tennis shoes for white Rats.
- In 1995, the world's largest model of the Starship Enterprise was completed in Vulcan, Alberta, Canada. It measured 31 feet or 9.4 meters in length 9 feet or 2.7 meters high and weighed 5,080 kilograms. There is a plaque on the base of the Starship greeting visitors, written in English, Vulcan and Klingon.
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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