Eremoryzomys, also known as the gray rice rat, is a genus of rodent consisting of a single species, E. polius. Discovered in 1912 and first described in 1913 by Wilfred Osgood, it was originally named Oryzomys polius. In 2006, a cladistic analysis found that it was not closely related to Oryzomys or to any other known member of its tribe, Oryzomyini. The Brazilian genus Drymoreomys, named in 2011, is probably its closest relative. Eremoryzomys has a limited distribution in the dry upper valley of the Marañón River in central Peru. A large, long- tailed rice rat, with a head and body length of 138 to 164 mm (5.4 to 6.5 in), it has gray fur, short ears, and well-developed ungual tufts of hair on the hindfeet. Females have eight mammae. The rostrum (front part of the skull) is long and robust and the braincase is rounded. The bony palate is relatively short. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has found insufficient data to assess the conservation status; the species may be threatened by destruction of its habitat for cattle farming.
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2333 BC:
According to Korean legend, Dangun, the "grandson of heaven", established Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangun
1918:
World War I: Following his armed forces' defeat by the Allied Powers, Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand I abdicated in favor of his son Boris III (pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_III_of_Bulgaria
1951:
In Major League Baseball, the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hit the "Shot Heard 'Round the World", a game-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_Heard_%27Round_the_World_(baseball)
1986:
After Soviet nuclear submarine K-219 had suffered an explosion and fire, sailor Sergei Preminin manually prevented an impending nuclear meltdown by means of a reactor SCRAM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_K-219
2013:
A boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa, with a second boat sinking eight days later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Lampedusa_migrant_shipwreck
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scuffle: 1. (intransitive) To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters. 2. (intransitive) To walk with a shuffling gait. 3. (slang) To make a living with difficulty, getting by on a low income, to struggle financially. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scuffle
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Through Chance, we are each a ghost to all the others, and our only reality; through Chance, the huge hinge of the world, and a grain of dust; the stone that starts an avalanche, the pebble whose concentric circles widen across the seas. --Thomas Wolfe https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Wolfe