10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 29 November:
- 1799 Amos Bronson Alcott, US writer, known for founding an unconventional school and a utopian community known as "Fruitlands" was born on this date in 1799. On this date in 1832, his daughter was born – Louisa M Alcott. the writer best known for her novel Little Women. She wrote, "I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
- Also born on this date, in 1898, was C. S. (Clive Staples) Lewis, who wrote The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilogy. A quote from him: "And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."
- In 1981, actress Natalie Wood, 43, fell off a yacht near Catalina Island. Her husband Robert Wagner, and friend Christopher Walken, were on board and unaware of her predicament, because they were apparently having an argument in the cabin, so Natalie drowned.
- In Iowa on this date in 1936, a father and son married two sisters. This led to complicated family relationships. The son was his father's brother-in-law, and brother-in-law and step-son to his father's wife; his father's wife was now both her sister's mother-in-law and sister-in-law; the son's wife was his step-mother's sister, sister-in-law, and daughter-in-law!
- The Duke of Kent and Princess Marina got married in Westminster Abbey on this date in 1934. It was the first broadcast of a royal wedding.
- Enos the chimp was launched from Cape Canaveral aboard the Mercury-Atlas V spacecraft on this date in 1961. The craft orbited the earth twice before landing off Puerto Rico.
- In 1973, a Ruppell’s Vulture collided with a commercial aircraft at 37,000 feet. It shut down one of the plane’s engines (the plane landed without incident) and left behind sufficient feathers for scientists to identify it and proclaim that this was the highest altitude ever recorded for a bird.
- In 1897, Britain’s first motorcycle race was held in the Grounds of Sheen House, Richmond, Surrey. The average speed was just under 30mph.
- In 2010, Pablo Picasso's electrician claimed he had in his possession 271 previously unknown works given to him as gifts by the artist.
- In 1995, Dutchman Cor Stoop, who'd lost his false teeth in a bout of seasickness two months earlier, got them back from a fisherman who'd found them in a cod’s stomach.
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A Superhero love story.
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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