29 August: Beatrice Name Day

In Lithuania, today is the name day for people called Beatrice.

Beatrice is a female given name. Beatrix is a variant of the name, which means "blessed one". 10 famous people with the name:

1. Beatrix Potter: English illustrator, author and conservationist.

2. Saint Beatrice of Silva: Portuguese nun and saint foundress of the monastic Order of the Immaculate Conception.

3. Beatrice Portinari: great love and muse of poet Dante Alighieri.

4. Beatrice McCartney: Paul McCartney's daughter with Heather Mills.

5. Bea Arthur: American actress and comedian, Dorothy Zbornak on The Golden Girls.

6. Beatrice: in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

7. Beatrice of England: daughter of Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence.

8. Beatrice "Trixie" Espinoza: character in the TV/streaming series Lucifer.

9. Princess Beatrice: daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II.

10. Saint Beatrice d'Este: Italian Roman Catholic saint. She was betrothed to Galeazzo Manfredi of Vicenza, but he died of his wounds after a battle, so she entered a convent.

Character birthday

Scorpion, aka Homer Zoltan. He was a scientist on Desi Troyes’ nuclear testing team. He was issued with an anti-rad suit. He tinkered with his, adding a tailpiece armed with a paralysing agent. He used it to rob people for several months before the team set sail for Bird Island for the test of the nuclear bomb. When the bomb created a wormhole to the Earth dimension, he was among those transported through it. He teamed up with Troyes and became part of the group known as the Desperadoes.

Over the Rainbow

'We're not in Trinity anymore,' says Leonard Marx, quoting a line from an old Innovian  movie. The moon is different; the planes flying overhead are different. Nobody has any idea where they are or if it's possible to get home. 

In this strange new world, people from the highly technical Innovia and the less advanced Classica must co-operate in order to survive. In addition, travel through the inter-dimensional wormhole has given some people unusual and unexpected powers.

Innovia mourns the loss of its superhero, Power Blaster, last seen carrying a nuclear bomb to the upper atmosphere away from the inhabited Bird Island. They don't believe he could possibly have survived.  Power Blaster has survived, but is close to death and stranded in the new dimension. He is nursed back to health by a Classican woman, Elena. She has no idea who he is, only that she is falling in love with the handsome stranger.  

Shanna sets out to discover what happened to Nathan Tate, who didn't return from his hiking holiday, not knowing her life is about to be turned inside out and upside down. 

Meanwhile, Desi Troyes, the man responsible for the catastrophe, is at large on the new world, plotting how he can transfer his plans for world domination to the planet he now finds himself on - Earth. 

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