10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 12 June:
- This date in 1929 saw the birth of Anne Frank. On her 13th birthday, she was given a diary. She kept a diary while her family hid from the Nazis in Amsterdam. The family were discovered by the Gestapo in 1944; Anne was sent to Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen she died. Her father survived, and published The Diary of a Young Girl, which has been published in over 30 languages. A quote from her diary: "I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains."
- In 1920, Charles Stephens died when he attempted to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
- 1987 Princess Anne was made Princess Royal on this date in 1987, the title awarded to the monarch’s eldest daughter.
- The first animated film was released on this date in 1913. It was called The Artist's Dream aka The Daschund and was created by Pathe Freres. The plot is fairly basic: a dog eats sausages until it explodes.
- In 1988, Carolyn Shoemaker discovered her 14th comet, making her the greatest living comet hunter.
- In 1349, Edward III, King of England, ordered archery practice for every able bodied man and banned Football in London.
- In 1935, Senator Huey Long of Louisiana spoke continually for 15½ hours in the Senate. It was the longest speech on record. His 150,000 words filled 100 pages in the Congressional Record and cost the government $5,000 to print.
- In 2000, the Millennium Bridge in London was closed for repairs, because it wobbled.
- In 2012, a coroner in Australia's Northern Territory ruled that a Dingo was responsible for the death of baby Azaria Chamberlain at Uluru in August 1980.
- In 2000 Kovat, a Cat in Cheltenham, got into the tumble dryer and wasn't noticed when its owner turned the machine on. Kovat suffered shock, hyperventilation, overheating, a paralysed tail, and lost a tooth, but survived, and was rescued after 15 minutes being tossed around at 100C.
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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