25 November

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 25 November:

1. In 2000, a 66 year old Quebec woman lost her life after the Christmas Trees tied to the roof of her car fell off. She was run over by three cars as she attempted to pick them up.
2. Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer first appeared on the music charts on this date in 1949. 80 different versions of the song have been recorded, with nearly 20,000,000 copies sold.
3. Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, listed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's longest running play, opened at the Ambassadors' Theatre in London on this date in 1952.
4. In 1896, William Marshall became the first person in Britain to receive a parking summons after leaving his car in Tokenhouse Yard in the City of London. The case was dismissed.
5. On this date in 2348 BC, according to Archbishop James Ussher's Old Testament chronology, the Great Deluge ("Noah's Flood") began.
6. In 1969, John Lennon returned his MBE to Queen Elizabeth, citing British involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra war, political support of the US position in Vietnam and the poor reception given to the Plastic Ono Band's Cold Turkey.
7. In 1779, Lord Lyttelton claimed to have a dream about the mother of three sisters he'd seduced, resulting in them committing suicide. She told him he would be dead in three days. Sure enough, he died of a stomach complaint, right on schedule.
8. In 1988 US and Soviet Chess grand masters Donaldson and Akhmilovskaya wed. Was it "Checkmate"?
9. In 1911, three men were hanged for murdering Sir Edmundbury Godfrey at Greenberry Hill. Their names were Green, Berry and Hill.
10. In 1998, Les Stewart from Mudjimba, Australia, finished typing all numbers from one to one million in words. He began in 1982 and used up seven manual typewriters, 1000 ink ribbons, 19,890 pages. It had taken him 16 years and seven months. When asked why he had undertaken this tedious task, Les said that he had little else to do since being classed as an invalid who could no longer work.

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Sent away to school to get her away from undesirable company, Agnes finds herself homesick and lonely. A brief connection with Jason Warner leads to the teenage crush to end all teenage crushes. Jason is barely aware Agnes exists, but she plans her whole future around him.

It is only when they meet again as adults that the connection becomes mutual; but before it can develop, Jason makes a discovery which rocks his entire world. He needs time alone, away from everyone, including Agnes. When Jason is finally ready to go back to his old life, Agnes has moved on and he cannot find her.

Agnes is now a single parent to the remarkable Seraphina. The Power League want to harness Seraphina's powers for evil before the Freedom League become aware of her. Agnes has no idea her new colleague and friend is a supervillain with his own agenda, and his willingness to babysit is not as innocent as she thinks. As Incendio starts teaching Seraphina to use her powers, the Freedom League intervene. Little do they know that they have found one of their own.

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