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The Malagasy mountain mouse (Monticolomys Donna Strickland

koopmani) is a small mouse-like rodent of the
family Nesomyidae. Found in the highlands of
eastern Madagascar (map pictured), it is dark
brown on the upperparts and dark gray below. It has
small, rounded, densely haired ears and broad feet
with well-developed pads. The long tail lacks a tuft
at the tip. The skull is delicate and lacks crests and
ridges on its roof. First collected in 1929, the
Malagasy mountain mouse was not formally
described until 1996, but it is now known to have a
broad distribution. Active during the night in trees
and on the ground, the species occurs in both
montane forest and human-disturbed grasslands,
and feeds on fruits and seeds. Although habitat
destruction may pose a threat, it is classified as a
species of least concern. Monticolomys means
"mountain-dwelling mouse", and koopmani honors
 Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and
Donna Strickland (pictured) are
awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics
for their work on laser science.
 James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo
are awarded the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine for their work
on cancer immunotherapy.
 In golf, the Ryder Cup concludes with
Europe defeating the United States.
 In Australian rules football, West
Coast Eagles defeat Collingwood to
win the AFL Grand Final.
 In cricket, the Asia Cup concludes
with India defeating Bangladesh in
the final.
Karl Koopman for his contributions to mammalian  A magnitude 7.5 earthquake and
systematics. (Full article...) tsunami hits Sulawesi, Indonesia,
killing at least 1,424 people.
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Did you know... On this day

October 4

Schlosstheater Schönbrunn in 2014

 ... that the palace theatre Schlosstheater

Schönbrunn (hall pictured), commissioned by
Sputnik 1
Maria Theresa, opened on 4 October 1747, her
husband's name day?
 1876 – Texas A&M University
 ... that Bob Lowes is a two-time winner of the
Coach of the Year Award in the Canadian opened as the first public institution
Hockey League? of higher education in the U.S. state
 ... that the Furgate scandal in the late 1990s, of Texas.
 1918 – An ammunition plant in
described as one of the largest in South Korea,
involved influence peddling through the giving Sayreville, New Jersey, U.S.,
of luxury items? exploded, killing around 100 people
 ... that upon its completion in 2016 at SeaWorld and destroying more than 300
Orlando, Mako became the tallest, longest, and buildings.
 1957 – Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 1
fastest roller coaster in the Orlando area?
 ... that French poet René Ghil worked towards (replica pictured), the first artificial
developing an ideal poetic language that would satellite to orbit the Earth, was
"subsume and supersede all the other arts" by launched by an R-7 rocket from the
establishing his own system of verbal Baikonur Cosmodrome.
 1958 – The current Constitution of
instrumentation?
 ... that to create the fireball effect in episode France was signed into law,
1094 of Casualty, the show's production team establishing the French Fifth
packed ten different explosions into one blast? Republic.
 2010 – The dam holding a waste
reservoir in western Hungary
  ... that Almeda Eliza Hitchcock became the first collapsed, freeing one million m3
female lawyer in the Kingdom of Hawaii in (1,300,000 yd3) of red mud, which
1888? flooded nearby communities and
 ... that one of the dogs belonging to Imran killed ten people.
Khan, the Pakistan prime minister,
accompanies him on his daily helicopter ride to John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll
the office and in official meetings at his home? (d. 1743) · Jenny Twitchell Kempton
(b. 1835) · Zinha Vaz (b. 1952)
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Four Times of the Day is a series of four paintings by the French landscape painter Claude
Joseph Vernet (1714–1789). They were painted in 1757 in Paris, and are held by the Art
Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide. The paintings consist of four separate scenes
depicting morning, midday, evening and night, a series which was created by several artists
of the era including Vernet and Philip James de Loutherbourg.
 The painting pictured is the Morning scene.

See the other times of day: Midday · Evening · Night

Painting: Claude Joseph Vernet

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