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11 unusual facts about RAT


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They donated storage containers to Middleburg, Florida resident Margaret Gilmore, who lost her home after she spent a year in the hospital due to a heart problem, as part of a community effort.

Daniel Casper von Lohenstein

Duke Christian strove to attract him to his court as a secret advisor, but Caspar declined before returning 1670 to Breslau, where a successful and promising career beckoned.

Dinky Di's

Mr. Mephisto, a shadowy figure with glowing red eyes, uses a gang of stereotypically maligned beasts to do his dirty work: Rancid Rat, Hugo Hyena, Ganny Iguana, and others.

Miller's Guide

Filed under Ratting in the 1887 annual it stated: 25 rats killed in 1min 28s Jimmy Shaw's dog Jacko, London, Eng.

Old Jock

Jock's main rival in the show ring was a dog named Tartar, who was said to be more fond of ratting than his competitor.

RAT

Rock Abrasion Tool of the MER-A (Spirit) and MER-B (Opportunity) Mars rovers

Rat-baiting

The ratting dogs were typically working terrier breeds, which included, but were not limited to, the Bull and Terrier, Bull Terrier, Bedlington Terrier, Fox Terrier, Jack Russell Terrier, Rat Terrier, Black and Tan Terrier, Manchester Terrier, Yorkshire Terrier and Staffordshire Bull Terrier.

Rat-catcher

Another, more recent appearance of a rat-catcher in fiction is the children's novel The Twinkie Squad by Gordon Korman.

Ratcatchers also appear in George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss and make a major appearance in Dario Argento's The Phantom of the Opera.

The Elder Scrolls Travels

At the start of the game, this town will be under attack by an (at the time) unknown force of bandits and their army of giant Rats.

White-footed rabbit-rat

The white-footed rabbit-rat (Conilurus albipes) is an extinct species of rodent, which was originally found in woodlands from Adelaide to Sydney, but became restricted to south-eastern Australia.


Al Alvarez

He has also written on divorce (Life After Marriage), dreams (Night), and the oil industry (Offshore), as well as his hobbies of poker (The Biggest Game In Town) and mountaineering (Feeding the Rat, a profile of his frequent climbing partner Mo Anthoine).

Amphibious rat

Lundomys molitor, Lund's amphibious rat, of Uruguay and southern Brazil

An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds

It lists many animals, both domestic and wild, among its protagonists: Lion, Elephant, Bear, Boar, Deer, Donkey, Horse, Wolf, Cheetah, Leopard, Dog, Fox, Hound, Ox, Buffalo, Hare, Goat, Nanny (female Goat), Ewe (female Sheep), Camel, Cat, Rat, Monkey, Sheep.

B. indica

Bandicota indica, the greater bandicoot rat, a species of rodent in the family Muridae

Birds of New Zealand

The most damage however was caused by habitat destruction and the other animals humans brought with them, particularly rats (the Polynesian rat or kiore introduced by Māori and the Brown Rat and Black Rat subsequently introduced by Europeans), but also mice, dogs, cats, stoats, weasels, pigs, goats, deer, hedgehogs, and Australian possums.

C3orf58

Experiments in a rat neuronal cell culture model suggested that this gene may be regulated directly or indirectly by MEF2 site binding proteins.

Chalchalero vizcacha rat

The Chalchalero vizcacha rat (Salinoctomys loschalchalerosorum) is a species of caviomorph rodent in the family Octodontidae.

Cyanea dunbariae

Threats to the species include its low numbers and limited gene pool, degradation of its habitat by axis deer, and feral pigs, damage to plants by slugs, rats, and birds, and competition by exotic plants such as climbing dayflower (Commelina diffusa), air plant (Kalanchoe pinnata), and castor bean (Ricinus communis).

Cyanea longiflora

Slugs and rats damage similar species and may threaten this one.

Danny de Munk

De Munk started acting at the age of 12 as the leading role in the film Ciske de Rat (Ciske the Rat), directed by Guido Pieters, starring Herman van Veen as teacher and Willeke van Ammelrooy as mother.

Don Garlits

On October 20, 1987, his Top Fuel dragster, Swamp Rat XXX, the sport's only successful streamlined Top Fuel Dragster, was enshrined in National Museum of American History, a branch of The Smithsonian museum in Washington, DC.

E. palustris

Eimeria palustris, an apicomplexan parasite species that infects the marsh rice rat

Etowah River

The "Et-ee-waw" is home to country singer/songwriter Jerry Reed's fictional character "Ko-Ko Joe," the 'Etowah River Swamp Rat.'

Harvey Lembeck

The Von Zipper character, leader of the Rat Pack motorcycle gang, was a parody of Marlon Brando's role in The Wild One (Von Zipper reveals in Beach Blanket Bingo that one of his idols was "Marlo Brandon".) Among other things, Von Zipper pronounced his judgments on others by saying "Him, I like", or "Him, I do not like".

Hes3 signaling axis

:* Activation of the signaling pathway by Delta4, Angiopoietin 2, insulin, or a combination of the three and a JAK inhibitor induces motor skill improvements in adult rat models of Parkinson's disease (6-hydroxydopamine model).

Hilltop Hospital

The English-language version featured the voices of Kevin Whately (Dr. Matthews), Sally Ann Marsh (nurse Kitty), Celia Imrie (Surgeon Sally), Paul Shane (the two Teds), Brian Murphy (Dr. Atticus), Julie Higginson (Clare the lab rat) and Jonathon Kydd (Arthur the lab rat).

Johann Baptist Alzog

He defended with ardour the Archbishop of that city, Martin von Dunin, during his persecution by the Prussian government, became vicar-capitular, professor and regens at Hildesheim in 1845, and in 1853 was appointed to the chair of Church History in the University of Freiburg (Breisgau); at the same time he was appointed an ecclesiastical councillor (geistlicher Rat).

Kazakhstan blind mole rat

Kazakhstan Blind Mole Rat (Spalax uralensis, alternatively Ural Blind Mole Rat) is an extant species of blind mole rat indigenous to Kazakhstan, along the Ural River basin and the flood plains of the Uil, Temir, and Emba rivers.

Larsen Harbour

The area is rat-free, allowing species such as the South Georgia Pipit, and burrowing petrels and prions to thrive.

Long Tall Weekend

The next year, "Rat Patrol," "Token Back to Brooklyn," "Reprehensible," "Certain People I Could Name" and "They Got Lost" appeared on the rarities compilation album They Got Lost, and "The Edison Museum" appeared on No!.

Maned rat

The rat is known to deliberately smear these hairs with poison from the bark of the Acokanthera schimperi, on which it chews, thus creating a defense mechanism that can sicken or even kill predators which attempt to bite it.

Marv Newland

This work includes directing episodes of the 3D stop motion series, The PJ's, for Will Vinton Studios in Portland, Oregon; The Preacher's Life (1999); Fear of a Black Rat (1999); and Let's Get Ready to Rumba (2001).

Mike Lester

In May 2009, Lester received the Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society for his work on the children's book Cool Daddy Rat.

MIT class ring

Iron Man: Lieutenant Colonel James "Rhodey" Rhodes (played by Terrence Howard) and Tony Stark (played by Robert Downey, Jr.) both wear the Brass Rat, visible on their fingers.

Stir Crazy: Inmate Grossberger was played by Erland Van Lidth De Jeude, an MIT graduate in Course VI, while wearing his Brass Rat.

Nezumi Kozō

Nezumi is the Japanese word for "rat"; a kozō was a young errand-boy who worked in a shop in the Edo period.

Ningen Isu

In the band's early days, Suzuki often wore cloths like Nezumi-otoko, a rat man (a character of "Ge-Ge-Ge no Kitaro" by Shigeru Mizuki), which made them impressive.

Open Mind Productions

They have produced some 500 programmes for children and educational TV, including The Number Crew,Rat-A-Tat-Tat and Maths Mansion for Channel 4 and Little Ninjas Karate for Playhouse Disney Numberjacks for BBC2.

Peabody Opera House

It has since been broadcast on Nick at Night (in 1998) as part The Museum of Television & Radio Showcase series and released on DVD as part of the "Ultimate Rat Pack Collection: Live & Swingin'".

Polynesian rat

This rat also may have played a role in the complete deforestation of Easter Island by eating the nuts of the local palm tree, thus preventing regrowth of the forest.

Rat Parties

As a young fashion student and a close friend of Vidgen, Akira Isogawa contributed to many of the lavish costumes that now survive in a well catalogued retrospective of the RAT era kept at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum.

The next official RAT party, titled 'RATsurrect' and advertised through word-of-mouth, was held at the Bondi Pavilion on 22 April 1984.

Rat Rod Rockers!

Shortly after the DVD release party, Rat Rod Rockers! was made available on multiple websites and stores including Amazon.com as both a DVD and Video On Demand rental.

Rat Sound

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has utilized Rat Sound to provide audio as the primary audio vendor since 2001.

Rat Terrier

The earliest known record of a rat-catching dog is that of "Hatch", whose remains were recovered from the Mary Rose, the flagship of Henry VIII, sunk in 1545 and re-raised in 1982.

Ron Radliff

As team mate to future NBL Hall of Famers Larry Sengstock, Cal Bruton, Leroy Loggins and Danny Morseu, The Rat helped the team to win its first NBL Championship in 1985 against the Adelaide 36ers, and again in 1987 against the Perth Wildcats.

Savage Pencil

Savage Pencil was also a member of The Art Attacks, a band who released two 7"s; "I'm A Dalek" b/w "Neutron Bomb" (released on the Albatross label in 1977) and "First & Last" / "Punk Rock Stars" / "Rat City" (released on the Fresh label in 1979).

Schistosoma ovuncatum

The natural final host is the rat (Rattus rattus) and the intermediate host is the pomatiopsid snail Tricula bollingi.

The Laughing Dogs

They also played at Boston popular club The Rat, The Bottom Line, My Father's Place, and colleges.

The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death

While snarking out, they meet the usual assortment of oddballs, such as Ms. Bentley Saunders Harrison Matthews, a.k.a. Rat, and places, from Blueberry Park to Lower North Aufzoo Street to Beanbender's Beer Garden.

The Torquays

The band recorded several critically acclaimed albums, toured the west coast, appeared on local radio and television and had a small part at the end of the Ron Mann directed film Tales of the Rat Fink (2006).

Tokudaia tokunoshimensis

The Tokunoshima spiny rat (Tokudaia tokunoshimensis) is a rodent found only on the island of Tokunoshima in Japan.

Tonette

This instrument was played by Felix Pappalardi on "Pressed Rat and Warthog" on Cream's "Wheels of Fire" album.

Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat

Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat is a real-time tactics computer game published by Games Workshop (in conjunction with Mindscape) in 1995.

William Kotzwinkle

He has won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel for Doctor Rat in 1977, and has also won the National Magazine Award for fiction.