21 December

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 21 December:

1. This date in 1804 saw the birth of Benjamin Disraeli, first Earl of Beaconsfield, British Conservative statesman who served in government for three decades, twice as Prime Minister—the first and thus far only person of Jewish parentage to do so. He was also a novelist. He wrote romances, of which Sybil and Vivian Grey are the best-known. He said, "What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens."
2. An act passed by the House of Keys on the Isle of Man on this date in 1840 granted women the vote, provided they were widows or spinsters with a property rated annually at £4 or over.
3. The first feature-length cartoon with colour and sound, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, an animated masterpiece produced by Walt Disney, had its world première in Hollywood on this date in 1937.
4. In 1981, the world's longest aeroplane made its maiden flight. It was an An-225, built by the Russian company Antonov, was made to carry the Buran orbiter, Russia's version of the Space Shuttle. The plane was 84 meters or 276 feet long.
5. In 1968, Apollo 8, the first manned moon voyage was launched with Borman, Lovell and Anders aboard. They became the first men to orbit the Moon.
6. In 1799, William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, took possession of Dove Cottage at Grasmere, Westmorland.
7. In 2010, Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of the Queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips and Rugby Union player Mike Tindall.
8. In 1988, a Pan Am jumbo jet exploded in flight and crashed onto the Scottish town of Lockerbie killing all 259 passengers aboard and 11 people on the ground. The aircraft, bound for New York, had taken off from London after completing its first leg from Germany. The bomb was hidden in a transistor radio.
9. The current cycle of the Mayan "long count" calendar, based on great cycles of 5125 years, ended on this date in 2012, having sparked fears that it meant the end of the world. Needless to say, the fears were unfounded.
10. In 2001 a Tartan was commissioned for Madonna: blue for True Blue and yellow for Blonde Ambition tour.

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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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