7 June

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 7 June:

British Museum

1. On this date in 1520, Henry VIII and Francis I held a conference in Northern France to try and settle their differences and form an alliance against Germany. However, all the two kings actually did was try to outdo each other in terms of their clothes and accouterments. No alliance was reached. The meeting was hence nicknamed Field of the Cloth of Gold.
2. In 1993, Prince celebrated his birthday by changing his name to a symbol. There is no spoken word for this symbol. Hence he became known as "the artist formerly known as Prince."
3. Television resumed after the war on this date in 1946. Announcer Leslie Mitchell opened with: "As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted..."
4. A right royal photobomb occurred live on TV on this date in 2013, when Queen Elizabeth II appeared in the BBC newsroom behind the BBC News Channel's newsreaders while they were live on air.
5. In 1992, President Bush, at a meeting with John Major at Camp David, Maryland, voiced confidence that he'd be re-elected, saying, "I do better when I'm coming from behind."
6. In 1988, a parrot in a Brazilian zoo regained its appetite after a dentist fitted it with a plastic beak. The parrot’s lower beak had split, preventing it from eating.
7. The British Museum was founded by an Act of British Parliament on this date in 1753.
8. In 1896, G Harpo and F Samuelson left New York to row the Atlantic. It took 54 days.
9. In 1937, a train arrived at Chicago with a broken headlight with a dead Trout inside it. It was suggested that the train, travelling at 80mph, had hit an eagle flying across the track with a trout in its beak; but there was no evidence of a bird strike.
10. In 1995, the Tower of London imported two Ravens, Munin and Hugine — Norse for Memory and Foresight, from North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. Legend states that the empire will fall if all the ravens leave. They were down to just six because two unruly ravens had been exiled to a bird sanctuary in Wales.

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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