For example, German Rat ( pronounced with a long " a ") (= " council ") is cognate with English " read " and German and Dutch Rede (= " speech ", often religious in nature ) ( hence Æthelred the ' Unready ' would not heed the speech of his advisors, and the word ' unready ' is cognate with the Dutch word " onraad " meaning trouble, danger ), while English and Dutch " rat " for the rodent has its German cognate Ratte.

Rat Hb contains little water and is in a quasi-crystalline form, found inside the red blood cells ( RBC ), meaning they are more hydrophobic than human Hb, which are water-soluble.

Reynolds wrote to Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of St Asaph, a few weeks later: " Your Lordship congratulation on my succeeding Mr. Ramsay I take very kindly but it is a most miserable office, it is reduced from two hundred to thirty-eight pounds per annum, the Kings Rat catcher I believe is a better place, and I am to be paid only a fourth part of what I have from other people, so that the Portraits of their Majesties are not likely to be better done now, than they used to be, I should be ruined if I was to paint them myself ".

A Labour Day tradition in Atlantic Canada is the Wharf Rat Rally in Digby, Nova Scotia, while the rest of Canada watches the Labour Day Classic, a Canadian Football League event where rivals like Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts ( except in 2011, due to a scheduling conflict ), and Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers play on Labour Day weekend.

Other studies, such as the Rat Park experiments, suggest that morphine is less physically addictive than others suggest, and most studies on morphine addiction merely show that " severely distressed animals, like severely distressed people, will relieve their distress pharmacologically if they can.

The " Single-O " is a single attraction, for example a single curiosity like the " Bonnie and Clyde Death Car " or Hitler's staff car, a " Giant Rat " ( actually usually a nutria ) or other unusual animal, a " What Is It?

Ocean's Eleven ( 2001 ), a Ted Griffin-scripted remake from a Rat Pack-movie from 1960, featuring an all-star cast and flashy aesthetics, is Soderbergh's highest grossing movie to date, grossing more than $ 183 million domestically and more than $ 450 million worldwide.

* February 17 – Albert Johnson, The mysterious Mad Trapper of Rat River is surrounded by RCMP officers on the Eagle River and killed after a 49 day manhunt through the Yukon Territory

Lauda is sometimes known by the nickname " the rat ", " SuperRat " or " King Rat " because of his prominent bucked teeth.

The famous Irish navvy-turned-novelist Patrick MacGill, author of many books about the experiences of Irish migrant itinerant labourers in Britain at around the turn of the 19th to 20th century, such as The Rat Pit and the autobiographical Children of the Dead End, is from the Glenties area.

An early description of the opossum comes from explorer John Smith, who wrote in Map of Virginia, with a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion in 1608 that " An Opassom hath an head like a Swine, and a taile like a Rat, and is of the bignes of a Cat.

Hassan is killed by wounded Commando " Rat " ( John Leguizamo ).

He also created The Rat Pack is Back.

In the film The Adventures of Tintin which is directed by Steven Spielberg and produced by Peter Jackson, there is a brief scene where Captain Haddock mistakes Snowy for a " Rat Monkey from Sumatra ".

* China Miéville's 1998 novel King Rat reimagines the Pied Piper as a flautist adding samples to drum and bass music and is opposed by sentient rats in London.

* The ambient / industrial music duo from India Rat King's debut album The Plague Of Hamelin is loosely based on the original Pied Piper Of Hamelin.

Gambino was seen at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas on August 2, 1967, where he is supposed to have met Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, and Joey Bishop, the group known as " The Rat Pack.

Perhaps the oldest public house in Greetland, the Druids Arms is affectionately known locally as the " Rat ".

Ocean's 11 is a 1960 heist film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring five Rat Packers: Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Joey Bishop.

The zodiac traditionally begins with the sign of the Rat, and there are many stories about the Origins of the Chinese Zodiac which explain why this is so ( see below ).

Early 2003 NAC added, as a symbol of gratitude, Breda to their club name, after the City of Breda bought NAC ’ s Rat Verleghstadium to help the club to cope with financial problems.

Five new bosses were also added: Slash ( who replaced Cement Man ), the Rat King, Battletank Shredder, and the duo of Bebop and Rocksteady ( who replaced Tokka and Rahzar, with those two moved to the new Technodrome level ).

Even more significant, he writes, was that when he added a drug called Naloxone, which negates the effects of opioids, to the morphine-laced water, the Rat Park rats began to drink it.

In 1948 he had become president of the Parlamentarischer Rat, an office that added to his popularity as protagonist of a " state-to-be ".

; The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues ( 1994 ): The Stainless Steel Rat ( in the same earlier timeline as Is Born and Gets Drafted ) goes to a prison colony planet to retrieve an alien artifact, which he must find in thirty days or the slow-acting poison he was administered will take its effect.

Pastis also is subjected to Rat's odd whims from time to time, such as when Rat poured beer on one of his drawings and caused it to blur ( an effect Pastis said he could only achieve on Photoshop ) and stole all of his clothes.

" " One Star Rag ," " Rat Cheese under the Hill ," " Take Me Back to Tulsa ," " Basin Street Blues ," " Steel Guitar Rag ," and " Trouble in Mind " were some of the songs in his extensive repertory.

Lucy performs the song ‘ Bring on the Men ’ during a show at the Red Rat ( which was later replaced with ‘ Good ‘ n ’ Evil ’ in the Broadway production, some claiming ‘ Bring on the Men ’ was too ‘ risqué ’.

Since discovery by humans, numerous species have been introduced to the island, some deliberately, like the casurina, the feral pig, the Cardinal ( Cardinalis cardinalis ), anoles, ladybird beetles, and the Kiskadee, some incidentally, like the Norwegian rat ( Rattus norvegicus ) and the Black Rat ( Rattus rattus ), and the others accidentally, like the scale mites, and the brown widow spider ( Latrodectus geometricus ).

Rat snakes were long thought to be completely nonvenomous, but recent studies have shown that some Old World species do possess small amounts of venom ( amounts so small as to be negligible to humans ).

Lucy performs the song " Bring on the Men " during a show at The Red Rat ( which was later replaced with " Good ‘ n ’ Evil " in the Broadway production, some claiming " Bring on the Men " was too " risqué ").

Rat Cafeteria ( Tampa ), Sector 4, Hated Youth, and Paisley Death Camp ( all from Tallahassee ), No Fraud ( Venice ), F ( Fort Lauderdale ), Morbid Opera ( Miami ) and Crucial Truth ( Pompano Beach ) also gained an audience and some had songs compiled on the album We Can't Help It If We're From Florida.

Believed to be some sort of Avatar of the Horned Rat, Vermin Lords were greater daemons that even the Grey Seers feared and acquiesced themselves to.

The " Rat Creek " fire, in 1985, damaged some of Esalen's facilities.

( It is left to the reader to decide if he declared bankruptcy or came to a long-term arrangement with his creditors or was rescued by the equity in his Rat Wharf flat ; however, it is revealed that he no longer has his car, which was presumably sold to cover some of the debts.

This show also includes some Inner Circle mutants named Rat, Marsh, and Neuron ( the Inner Circle's White Bishop ) who assisted Mastermind in his plans to rule humanity.

Pretty's description of some of the animals in the area as looking like strange kind of Conies with the tail of a Rat, being of great length lead to its identification as the Botta Pocket Gopher ( Thomoys bottae bottae ).

Humans first arrived via the Pacific islands, in several waves at some time before 1300, bringing with them the Polynesian Rat ( Kiore ) and the domesticated dog.

In the strip, Stephan expresses common sense, unlike Rat and some of the other characters.

According to Pastis, " mixing kids and alcohol and having Rat babysit while drunk just threw some uptight readers over the edge.

* Rat style: The characteristics of the rat rod style of hot rod and custom cars, imitating the " unfinished " appearance of some hot rods in the 40s, 50s and 60s.

Numerous artists were associated with Roth including Rat Fink Comix artist R. K. Sloane, Steve Fiorilla who illustrated some of Roth's catalogs, and most notably, Ed Newton who worked for Roth and designed several of his cars and t-shirt designs beginning in 1964, and Kustom Kulture icon Robert Williams who began working for Roth in late 1965.

However, some players prefer that the Dog is also allowed to go onto a water square, which makes it easier to capture the opponent's Rat in the water.

In episodes featuring him, the Rat King would often enact some sort of plot to establish his own rat-controlled government and bring human rule to an end, believing that rats ( which he counted himself as ) were superior to all other species, whom he described as " inferior non-rodents.

The cover picture shows the members of the group ( from left to right Malcolm Owen, Paul Fox, Dave Ruffy and Segs-who is perusing a copy of Exchange & Mart ) seated on a large sofa, around them are some of their contemporaries such as Rat Scabies and Captain Sensible of The Damned ( top right corner ), Jimmy Pursey of Sham 69 ( bottom right ), while Peter Cook and Dudley Moore are standing behind Malcolm, John Peel appears to be doing something to a schoolgirl ( in uniform ) with a bar of chocolate on the left hand side, Jimi Hendrix looks on from the right, the wives and girlfriends of the band members appear in various poses, as does the band's roadie Mannah ( seen from the back ) who assisted in writing the song " S. U. S " which deals with the vagrancy act, widely used by London's Metropolitan Police Service in the late 1970s.

The audience visits Sunshine pictures " Hollywood's Brightest Studio ' and are introduced to some of the biggest names in show business including Arnold Hamandegger, Cary Ant, Frankie Sinatrat, and the rest of the Rat Pack, Charlie Chimplin, Jay Rhino, Gloria Swansong, and more.

He appeared once in the older cartoon series in the episode ' Night of the Rogues ' where Shredder called some of the Turtles ' past foes together ( including the Rat King, Leatherhead, Slash, Tempestra, Chrome Dome, and Scumbug ) in hopes of defeating the turtles.

These snakes are quite slim and don't have the mass of some of their other constrictor cousins such as the terrestrial Python, Boa and Rat / Corn snake species.