Tuesday 1 August 2023

7 August: Donald Name Day

Today is the name day for people called Donald. 

Donald is a masculine given name derived from the Gaelic name Dòmhnall. It means "world-ruler" or "world-wielder". 10 famous Donalds:

  1. Donald Campbell: British world land and water speed record breaker who broke eight absolute world speed records on water and on land in the 1950s and 1960s. He remains the only person to set both world land and water speed records in the same year (1964). He died during a water speed record attempt.

  2. Donny Osmond: American singer and actor.

  3. Donald Sutherland: Canadian actor whose films include Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Eagle Has Landed.

  4. Donald Duck: Disney animated cartoon and comic-book character.

  5. Don McLean: American singer-songwriter and musician, probably best known for the song American Pie.

  6. Donald Tusk: former President of the European Council, former Polish Prime Minister.

  7. Donald Bradman: Australian cricketer.

  8. Donald Trump: businessman, 45th President of the United States.

  9. Donald Blake: secret identity of The Mighty Thor, from Marvel Comics.

  10. Donald "Don" Draper: protagonist of the AMC television series Mad Men.


Character birthday

Web, aka Paul Clarke. Member of the Freedom League. As a materials chemist, he developed a web-like substance which was intended to be a binding material but was unstable and would break down after just a few minutes. He saw a use for it in crime fighting and created a suit of power armour designed to shoot strings of it to temporarily immobilise an opponent. Read about him 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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