Let’s start at the very beginning of the OK panhandle
Today’s question:
I have had this question for several years and have never been able to get an answer. Has any baseball pitcher every got three outs on three pitches in one inning?
That is an unusual but hardly unheard of event. According to the “Baseball Almanac,” it has happened 182
times since 1894. Arizona’s own Randy Johnson did it twice in 2000.
Many states have logical borders between them — rivers, mountains, etc. Can you explain the reasoning for the panhandle of Oklahoma?
I can, but to explain it fully would take up at least two columns, and to tell you the truth, it isn’t all that interesting.
It has to do with Texas statehood, various measures of longitude and latitude, the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and a bunch of Indian reservations, outlaws, bootleggers, brothels and so on
and so forth.
The upshot of it all was a strip of land 34 miles wide and 166 miles long between Kansas and Texas that was more or less a no-man’s land without government or law for 40 years until it officially became part of the Oklahoma Territory in 1890.
While growing up, I learned there were eight music notes in a scale:
Do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do. How composers make so much wonderful music out of only eight notes is amazing. Are there really eight notes in a scale, or only seven since they begin with “do” and end
with “do?”
I’m pretty sure I’m going to regret getting into this one.
In Western music, there are two ways of looking at this.
There is the seven-note diatonic scale — do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do — developed around 1,000 years ago.
And there is the 12-note chromatic scale, which is more common and what we use mostly today.