Birthday cake!

If you are wondering where the party is....

...I will tell you, it is in Sweden!

Carl von Linné (or Carl Linnaeus) just turned 300...well, technically.

As the most famous Swede of all time and the father of the modern taxonomy of species, his latest milestone birthday is being celebrated to the fullest!

Not only did King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden show up for the big bash in Uppsala (the world-renown university town where Linnaeus lived during much of his career), but so did Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan.

So, Happy Birthday Carl! Don't spit on the cake!