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Today (yeseterday, now) I had business at the State House. Upon my emergence I came across a small parade of mostly early-teenage girls wearing white robes with purple sashes, singing "Happy Birthday To You" to some entity which was 2,757 years old. (I knew this because they severally answered their own question of how old it was now.) I didn't catch the entity's name; it was something that sounded like "Roe", and at first I thought maybe they were celebrating Roe v. Wade until they chanted its age. I wanted to think it was some strange religion I couldn't place, except that the kids frankly looked too multicultural to be monocultish, and anyway seemed to be having too much fun to be fanatical.

But then I happened across this LJ post which explained the signifance of the number. I read the first sentence and started to write this post. Only when I went back to fetch its URL did I notice that it went on to talk about the very event I witnessed! Funny stuff.