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buzzz worthy. . . Above: The late Nelson Mandela Above: Actor Morgan Freeman's image mistakenly placed on a billboard  honoring Mandela in India after the African leader's death. In a town in Southern India a good deed in honor of the late Nelson Mandela went terribly wrong. According to a  Twitter post, a billboard was erected in Southern India in honor of the fallen South African leader, but it mistakenly displayed the face of actor Morgan Freeman.  Unfortunatley, Freeman's image was also mistakenly passed around on the Internet as Mandela prior to this billboard error.  This flub is likely due to the fact that the American born actor played the freedom fighter rather convincingly in "Invictus," but other than that Freeman bears no resemblance to Mandela.  The cloth maker from the city of Coimbactore who ordered to billboard said he did not see the final product, but  it will be corrected according to an AFP report.

buzzz worthy. . . Air Force One departed through the steel Washington, DC sky en route to Johannesburg, South Africa this morning for the Tuesday funeral service of Nelson Mandela. Along with President Obama and the First Lady, on board were former President George W. Bush and former First Lady  Laura Bush , former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, National Security Advisor Susan Rice and the Attorney General, Eric Holder. A small U.S. Congressional delegation is expected to arrive separately. DC Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton will be among them. President Obama will speak at the funeral after Mr. Mandela’s family members. Other officials expected to speak on the program are United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and Cuban President Raul Castro. President Obama joins more than 50 world leaders who will come together to pay their final respects to Mandela, an international symbol of peace and freedom. The members of the press gagg...