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The "Rats Dungeon", or "Dungeon of the Rats", was a feature of the Tower of London alleged by Catholic writers from the Elizabethan era. "A cell below high-water mark and totally dark" would draw in rats from the River Thames as the tide flowed in. Prisoners would have their "alarm excited" and in some instances, have "flesh ... torn from the arms and legs".
Jack Black was a rat-catcher and mole destroyer from Battersea, England during the middle of the 19th century. [1] [2] At the time, England was ravaged by a massive population of rats that disrupted crops and spread disease, and Black's rat killing abilities made him a minor celebrity and Queen Victoria's official rat-catcher. Though he has ...
Trench rats are often portrayed in modern films about World War I, with specific films such as Deathwatch (2002), Passchendaele (2008) and 1917 (2019) showing scenes where the rats chewed off an injured soldier's legs, came out of a corpse and ate from the rations hung up by soldiers—portraying the rats in a horrifying light.
Rat-baiting is a blood sport that involves releasing captured rats in an enclosed space with spectators betting on how long a dog, usually a terrier and sometimes referred to as a ratter, takes to kill the rats. Often, two dogs competed, with the winner receiving a cash prize.
Jack Black, rat-catcher, 1851. 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 Europe to prevent the spread of diseases, most notoriously the Black Death, and to prevent damage to food supplies.
The explosive rat, [1] also known as a rat bomb, [2] was a weapon developed by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) in World War II for use against Germany. Rat carcasses were filled with plastic explosives , and were to be distributed near German boiler rooms where it was expected they would be disposed of by burning, with the ...
History of a meme The origins of the immigrants-eat-pets trope have been lost to time, said Scott Kurashige, an author and historian of race and Asian American history.
The Story of Rats: Their Impact on Us, and Our Impact on Them. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 1-86508-519-7. Hendrickson, R. (1983). More Cunning than Man: A Complete History of the Rat and its Role in Civilization, Kensington Books. ISBN 1-57566-393-7. Hodgson, B. (1997). The Rat: A Perverse Miscellany. Ten Speed Press. ISBN 9780898159264; Langton, J ...