Wife found this rock on vacation…in Oklahoma.

    by TWR_MTG

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    1. You should go to Hawaii. You wouldn’t believe how many rocks are shaped like islands.

    2. That little panhandle strip on your rock?

      It used to be part of Texas but they gave it up when they became a state, so that they could keep doing slavery.

      It was no man’s land, a lawless area, for 40 years until it became part of Oklahoma.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_panhandle#History

      > When Texas sought to enter the Union in 1845 as a slave state, federal law in the United States, based on the Missouri Compromise, prohibited slavery north of 36°30′ north latitude. Under the Compromise of 1850, Texas surrendered its lands north of 36°30′, rather than have a portion of the state as “free” territory. The 170-mile strip of land, a “neutral strip”, was left with no state or territorial ownership from 1850 until 1890. It was officially called the “Public Land Strip” and was commonly referred to as “No Man’s Land.”[10][11]

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