Quirky World: All about the Spacey - Man behind the mask revealed
On a night that the Florida Panthers handed out cardboard cut-outs of actor Kevin Spacey’s face, the House Of Cards star surprised fans by taking off his ‘Spacey Facey’ mask as the videoboard camera panned around the stands.
The Academy Award- winning actor attended the ice hockey game in support of the Panthers, wearing a sweatshirt showing an image of his face. It started as a joke a few months ago, when the Panthers issued a blue sweatshirt with ‘Spacey In Space’ — his face floating in outer space — to the star of each winning game. After a win, that player would then hand the shirt off to someone else.
The Usual Suspects and American Beauty star caught wind of it through social media. Whatever ‘Spacey In Space’ means remains a closely guarded inside joke.
An “irreplaceable” seal commissioned by Robert the Bruce could be exported from the UK unless a buyer can be found to match the asking price of more than £150,000 (€189,000).
The 14th century two-part bronze seal, with was used for customs documents by Dunfermline Abbey as proof of their authority and endorsement by Robert I, King of Scotland, is considered to be extremely rare and of outstanding significance.
A temporary export bar has been placed on the seal, authorised in 1322 by the Scottish king who defeated the English at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, to give a buyer a chance to keep it in the UK by meeting the price of £151,250.
Police say a shopping centre Easter bunny and a father got into a scuffle after the man’s child slipped from a chair while getting her photograph taken.
The video posted on Twitter shows a chaotic scene at the Newport Centre in Jersey City, New Jersey, near an area set up to take photos with the Easter bunny.
City spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill said both men were taken to a hospital with minor injuries. No charges have been filed and police investigation is ongoing.
Experts have recreated the skeleton and grave of King Richard III, which were found under a car park in Leicester.
University of Leicester archaeologists who discovered the royal’s remains have designed a 3D interactive representation of the king in his coffin, to show the minimal reverence with which he was buried.
Richard III, the last king of England to die in battle, was discovered beneath a Leicester car park in September 2012, and was reinterred at Leicester Cathedral on March 26 last year.
As one of the largest power providers in the US, Duke Energy has invested large sums in whirring turbines and high-tech solar projects. Now it has announced a new excrement-to-energy project that could provide power to about 10,000 homes a year.
Duke, with Carbon Cycle Energy, will build a facility in North Carolina that will take methane from pig and chicken waste and send it to four of its plants where it will be converted into energy.
The facility is expected to be up and running next year.
The small copper has joined the list of UK butterflies suffering significant declines, as conservationists said it suffered its worst year on record.
A cooler-than-average summer last year saw the small copper butterfly’s numbers fall by almost a quarter compared with 2014, the annual UK butterfly monitoring scheme led by Butterfly Conservation and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology found.
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