5 May: 125

Today is the 125^th day of the year. 10 facts about the number 125.

1. The InterCity 125 is a British diesel-powered high-speed passenger train built by British Rail Engineering between 1975 and 1982.
2. The Fiat 125 is a large family car which was manufactured and marketed by Italian car company Fiat from 1967 to 1972.
3. In New York, 125th Street, also called Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, is a two-way street that runs east–west in Manhattan. It is often considered to be the "Main Street" of Harlem.
4. In England, the A125 road runs between the A12 North of Romford and the A1306 at Rainham.
5. In London, the 125 bus runs between Colindale and Winchmore Hill.
6. The 125 dinghy is a class of sailing dingy popular in Australia.
7. 125 Liberatrix is a Main belt asteroid discovered by Prosper Henry on 11 September 1872, from Paris. The asteroid's name is a feminine version of the word "liberator".
8. The 125th Street Bridge crosses the Mississippi River in Minnesota.
9. 125 is the cube of 5.
10. In numerology, the energy of 125 is self-sufficient, cooperative, and a person who gets things done. They work independently, but value teamwork if it will help achieve the goals. It builds things that last, things that tend to have a long-term value to society. While they are generally focussed and like to have a plan, they can, on occasion, do something on a whim.

Character birthday

Frish, a member of the Ultra League who can transform into a greenish liquid. She is Russian, and in order to defect to the West, turned herself into liquid and was decanted into several bottles. Superwil was recruited to carry the bottles from Moscow to the UK, with strict instructions to pour the contents into a plugged bath as soon as possible. He had no idea what he was carrying and was astounded to find an unconscious, naked woman with green hair in his bathtub a few minutes later. This caused problems with his girlfriend, Judith (Electric Blue) who stormed out, and they were estranged for some years. Frish appears in Eternal Flame.

Eternal Flame

The Freedom League's numbers have dwindled to three - but leader Unicorn knows his team isn't finished yet. The turning point comes with Russell, a boy with bright red hair and a genetic variant ability to start fires. He's the first of an influx of new members who will take the League into the future. 

Judith and Wil are child prodigies - Judith in physics and electronics, and Wil in medicine. They have another thing in common - they are both genetic variants. And another thing - they both have fiery red hair. They are drawn to one another as their destinies intertwine, but the course of true love doesn't always run smoothly!

Richard is not a variant. He's an Olympic athlete who has picked up useful knowledge from his unusual friends to add to his own natural abilities. A chance encounter with a dying alien throws him into a Freedom League mission in which his skills are put to the ultimate test, along with theirs.

The Freedom League's arch-enemy, the super-villain Obsidian, wants his family fortune all to himself. One person stands in his way - his niece, Fiona. Fiona, devastated by a family tragedy and her failure to get in to her first choice university, is miserable and has few friends. When she realises her brother's death was no accident, and his killer is also after her, she fears it may be too late to gather allies around her and learn how to use her own genetic variant powers.

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