A typical Japanese scene.
It's sad to see a machine that has worked for many years go away.
The 92-year-old former factory manager performed a purification ritual, said farewell, and then the machine was taken away.
@jtimsuggs It's extremely old. They've got to go to incredible lengths to explain why the enemy can't kill their targets. Like grown men failing to capture a child in the woods.
The Oklahoma Panhandle exists because Texas chose to preserve its status as a slave state.
Under the Missouri Compromise, slavery was banned in territories north of the 36°30′ parallel. When Texas joined the United States as a slave state in 1845, its northern border was set at that line. Although Texas claimed land farther north based on earlier Spanish and Mexican boundaries, keeping that territory would have created a conflict over slavery restrictions. As part of the Compromise of 1850, Texas surrendered the strip of land north of 36°30′—the area that would eventually become the Oklahoma Panhandle.
The cession left the region outside the borders of any organized state or territory. Since it belonged to neither Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, nor Colorado, it remained a patch of unorganized federal land.
For roughly four decades, from 1850 to 1890, the area was widely known as “No Man’s Land,” a place with no formal territorial government, limited law enforcement, and an uncertain legal status. It was eventually attached to Oklahoma Territory and became part of the state of Oklahoma when Oklahoma entered the Union in 1907.