16 June

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 16 June:

1. In 1998, a man drowned in Fox Lake, Illinois when a gust of wind blew his boat over the stick of dynamite he’d thrown in the water to kill the fish.
2. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh premièred in New York on this date in 1960.
3. On this date in 1904, James Joyce met his future wife, the delightfully named Nora Barnacle, a chambermaid at Finn's Hotel, Dublin, and took her for a walk. Leopold Bloom's fictional odyssey through Dublin in Ulysses was based on their first date. This date is now celebrated in Dublin as Bloomsday.
4. In 1975, Randy Farland found a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.
5. In 2018, a missing Indonesian woman's body was found inside a python, one of only two fully documented cases of a human being eaten by a Snake.
6. In 1794, the first stone was laid of the world’s biggest grain Windmill in Holland. Known as ‘De Walvisch’ (the whale), it is still in existence.
7. In 1958, Yellow no parking lines were introduced to British streets.
8. In 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space as her spacecraft, Vostok 6, was launched. Tereshkova manually controlled Vostok 6 during the almost 3 day flight. In her first and only space flight, Tereshkova completed 48 Earth orbits.
9. In 1929, Otto E. Funk arrived in San Francisco, becoming the first person to have walked across the US playing a Violin. The 4,165 miles took Otto 183 days.
10. In 1939, there was a rain of tiny Frogs in Trowbridge, Wiltshire.

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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