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    A rat-catcher is a person who kills or captures rats as a professional form of pest control. Keeping the rat population under control was practiced in...
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    Jack Black was a rat-catcher and mole destroyer from Battersea, England during the middle of the 19th century. At the time, England was ravaged by a massive...
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  • Ratcatcher from the 1953 collection. A rat-catcher (Ralph Fiennes) comes to a petrol station to combat a rat infestation there. Station attendant Claud...
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    (German: der Rattenfänger von Hameln, also known as the Pan Piper or the Rat-Catcher of Hamelin) is the title character of a legend from the town of Hamelin...
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    age is not found in a rat's nest, and suspects that a rat king is created as a sort of project by a rat catcher himself. One rat king, called Spider due...
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  • Ratter (dog) (redirect from Rat terrier)
    the spread of disease. Rat-catchers who employed dogs were considerably more successful and rat-catchers with packs of ratting dogs would frequently travel...
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  • Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A rat-catcher is profession centred on catching rats as a form of pest control. Rat-catcher or ratcatcher might also refer...
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    the modern fancy rat begins with the rat-catchers of the 18th and 19th centuries who trapped rats throughout Europe. These rat-catchers would then either...
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    non-fiction list. Smith, Robert (Rat-catcher) (1786) The universal directory for taking alive and destroying rats Look up rat in Wiktionary, the free dictionary...
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    thousands of rats was required. The rat catcher would be called upon to fulfill this requirement. Jack Black, a rat catcher from Victorian England supplied...
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    in Asteroid City (2023) and the Netflix short films The Swan and The Rat Catcher. In 2022, he starred as disgraced British politician James Whitehouse...
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  • shorts adapted from Dahl's short stories, including "The Swan", "The Rat Catcher", and "Poison". Development on the project began in January 2022, with...
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  • Black (author) (1871–1932), author and hobo Jack Black (rat catcher), Victorian-era rat catcher Jack Black (Viz), a character in the adult comic Viz Jack...
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  • Golem: Occult Detective—The Rat Catcher #1". DarkHorse.com. Dark Horse Comics. "Joe Golem: Occult Detective—The Rat Catcher #2". DarkHorse.com. Dark Horse...
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  • his terrier into the covert to kill the fox. In Victorian England the rat-catcher, whose occupation was catching rats as a form of pest control, also used...
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  • stories to be more successful than others: particularly the novella, "The Rat Catcher," was criticised as "overextended". Ishiguro is the daughter of Nobel...
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  • The Rat Catchers is a 1960s British television drama series made by Rediffusion and broadcast on ITV. The series was not networked, playing on different...
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    Leptospirosis Other names Rat fever, field fever, rat catcher's yellows, pretibial fever Leptospira magnified 200-fold with a dark-field microscope Specialty...
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  • He also appeared in 2 episodes of Bear Behaving Badly as the Robot Rat Catcher and the Mummy. Since 2009, he has also played the role of 'Mr Liker Biker'...
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    Woodhouse, Craig (14 February 2011). "Larry the tabby lands No10 job as rat catcher". London Evening Standard. Archived from the original on 4 May 2011....
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  • adversaries that make up the Dark Knight's rogues gallery. Once an actual rat-catcher in Gotham City, Flannegan sank into a life of crime. Calling himself...
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    returned to Belgrade, where she interviewed her mother, her father, and a rat-catcher. She then incorporated these interviews into her piece, as well as clips...
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    the same size as the modern Standard Schnauzer breed and was bred as a rat-catcher and guard dog. The Giant Schnauzer and the Miniature Schnauzer were developed...
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    southern tip of the Scandinavian peninsula), serving as a guard dog, rat catcher and hunting dog. The breed's soft and gentle temperament also makes them...
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  • the 1920s, Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's cat - a renowned rat-catcher - had the rather regal title of Rufus of England, but was nicknamed "Treasury...
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  • band recorded "Percy the Rat Catcher" and a currently unreleased track called "She Was a Millionaire". "Percy the Rat Catcher" received overdubs across...
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    Roald Dahl / The Policeman Short film The Swan Roald Dahl The Rat Catcher Roald Dahl / Rat Man Poison Roald Dahl Coast Self 2024 Macbeth: Ralph Fiennes...
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    Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar Yes Yes Yes Netflix shorts based on stories by Roald Dahl The Swan Yes Yes Yes The Rat Catcher Yes Yes Yes Poison Yes Yes Yes...
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    Ratcatcher's Day, Rat-catcher's Day or Rat Catcher's Day is celebrated on 26 June or 22 July, commemorating the myth of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. The...
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    Brothers Grimm, a rat-catcher lures the town's rats into the river, but the mayor refuses to pay him. In revenge, the rat-catcher lures away all the...
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