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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Pied Piper of Hamelin (redirect from Rat-Catcher of Hamelin)
(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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Leptospirosis (redirect from Rat catcher's yellows)
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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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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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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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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animation the benefits of rats for the human. He says that Jack Black was a rat catcher for Queen Victoria and that he kept the rats he captured as pets. Their...
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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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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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Ratting may refer to: Ratter (dog), dog used for catching and killing rats Rat-catcher, the profession of catching rats Rat-baiting, the bloodsport of...
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book follows the spooky adventures of twelve-year-old Serafina, Chief Rat Catcher of the Biltmore Estate, as she works with friend Braeden Vanderbilt to...
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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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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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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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eating his flour. The council rat catchers are not available, and the switchboard girl gives Frisby a lead on a cheap rat-catcher – Mr Love, who in fact has...
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Ratcatcher's Day (redirect from Rat-catcher's Day)
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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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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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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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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