Sofa King
Jul 15, 2003, 12:30 PM
US Route 666 is renamed
A road in the US which shares its number with "The number of The Beast" is to be renamed.
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A Route 666 road sign in Rockaway Township, USA /AP
US Route 666, which runs through New Mexico, Colorado and Utah, is to be known as Route 491 from the end of the month.
At a ceremony in the reservation town of Shiprock on July 30, the highway will be rededicated.
As part of the renaming event, residents will be offered mutton and bread and Navajo medicine men will chant traditional incantations, says the Los Angeles Times.
"They'll bless the new highway," said SU Mahesh, a spokesman for New Mexico's highway department. "And they'll cleanse the old one."
Highway officials named it Route 666 in 1926 to indicate it was the sixth spur off Route 66, the get-your-kicks highway later immortalised by Nat King Cole.
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I wonder if that would make any difference to all the previously weird and tragic accidents that occurred! :devil:
A road in the US which shares its number with "The number of The Beast" is to be renamed.
http://www.ananova.com/images/web/62450.jpg
A Route 666 road sign in Rockaway Township, USA /AP
US Route 666, which runs through New Mexico, Colorado and Utah, is to be known as Route 491 from the end of the month.
At a ceremony in the reservation town of Shiprock on July 30, the highway will be rededicated.
As part of the renaming event, residents will be offered mutton and bread and Navajo medicine men will chant traditional incantations, says the Los Angeles Times.
"They'll bless the new highway," said SU Mahesh, a spokesman for New Mexico's highway department. "And they'll cleanse the old one."
Highway officials named it Route 666 in 1926 to indicate it was the sixth spur off Route 66, the get-your-kicks highway later immortalised by Nat King Cole.
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I wonder if that would make any difference to all the previously weird and tragic accidents that occurred! :devil: