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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".
During the World War II alliance, anti-British sentiment took different forms. In May 1942, when conditions were highly problematic for British prospects, American journalist Edward R. Murrow privately gave a British friend an analysis of the sources of persistent anti-British sentiment in the United States. He attributed it especially to:
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.
The rats were brought to the New World in the 1770s as stowaways on ships. “They occupy a variety of habitats including garbage dumps, sewers, open fields and woodlands, basements and nearly ...
Here's the reason why it's so hard to get rid of rats in cities. Chances are, if you live in a city, you've encountered one or two rats on your way home. Here's the reason why it's so hard to get ...
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 ...
Haynes, Sam W. Unfinished Revolution: The Early American Republic in a British World (2010) Louis, William Roger; Imperialism at Bay: The United States and the Decolonization of the British Empire, 1941–1945 (1978) Moser, John E. Twisting the Lion's Tail: American Anglophobia between the World Wars (New York University Press, 1999) Perkins ...
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