10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 19 June:
- Born this date in 1556 was James I, King of England and Scotland, son of Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley, proclaimed king of Scotland in 1567 when his mother was forced to abdicate. On the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, he ascended the English throne as James I.
- In 1999, an Italian man living in the Netherlands decided to sleep on his roof because it was a warm summer night. However, when he fell asleep, he rolled off and fell to his death.
- In 2002, Pang Yang, 21, was shot dead by her fiancé Benjamin Kult, 25, when she jumped out of the wardrobe to surprise him. He thought she was a burglar and shot her in the head. The couple, from Nebraska, had announced their engagement two days earlier.
- In 1816, while staying up all night to tell ghost stories with his wife and Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley suddenly became hysterical and ran shrieking from the room.
- In 1889, at about 4am, at the psychiatric centre at the Monastery Saint-Paul de Mausole in Saint Remy de Provence, France, Vincent Van Gogh allegedly saw the night sky which inspired the painting, Starry Night.
- Going to work at the Shanghai stock exchange became much less fun on this date in 1995 when drinking, smoking, gambling, eating, opening canned drinks, sleeping, shouting or “joking around” were all banned in the workplace.
- 1978 Jim Davis's popular comic strip Garfield first appeared in print on this date in 1978. In Jim's own words, Garfield is "a nap-taking, Coffee-guzzling, Lasagna-loving, Monday-hating, dog-punting, mailman-mauling fat cat." Garfield's main companions are Jon Arbuckle, his nerdy owner, and Odie, a playful but brainless dog.
- In 2001, in Whalley, Lancashire, Rev Chris Sterry preached a sermon which was 28 hours 45 minutes long. He was aiming for 36 hours, but ran out of things to say.
- In 2003, the world's tallest Sugar cube tower was built by Mat Hand. He stacked 1,194 sugar cubes on top of each other, creating the tower, measuring 57.2 inches or 145.5 cm.
- In 1988, Denny Rowe shaved a record 1,994 men in 60 minutes with a safety razor, that's 1.8 seconds per person. He drew blood four times.
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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