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	Rat king - Definition, explanation
		A rat king is said to arise when a number of rats become intertwined at the tails, and are joined with blood, dirt, and excrement.
		Rat kings are not to be confused with conjoined twins, which arise in several species.
		It is occasionally asserted that "rat king" is derived from the French roi de rats; or possibly from rouet de rats (wheel of rats).
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/r/ra/rat_king.php (871 words)

	RattyRat.com
		Rat kings have frequently been preserved, painted, and photographed, and in 1774 a 16-rat king was examined by a Leipzig court in connection with a charge that a miller's apprentice had cheated his master by stealing the king from him and pocketing a tidy sum by exhibiting it.
		Rat kings range in composition from 3 - 32 rats, with most consisting of 5 - 10 animals, and are apparently found only among the long and less pliable tailed fl rat species, although a few verified rodent kings of squirrels and several unverified mice kings have been reported.
		Rat kings fabricated by tying the tails of live rats together look nothing like real kings, but rat kings have been created in the laboratory by gluing the tails of rats together; this causes the rats to become so entangled while trying to extricate themselves that a true knot is formed.
	www.rattyrat.com /hodgepodge/folklorekonig.html (506 words)

	Rat king - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rat kings are mythological beasts said to arise when a number of rats become intertwined at the tails, and additionally stuck to each other with blood, dirt, and excrement.
		Rat kings are not to be confused with conjoined twins, which arise in several species.
		A rat king in which the entwined rats share a hive mind is a significant character in Alan Moore's The Ballad of Halo Jones.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rat_king (948 words)

	Lycanthrope, Rat King
		Those who are bitten by a rat king also have a 10% chance of contracting lycanthropy, although the phenotype of the victim is always the normal wererat variety.
		Rat kings have a powerful breath weapon in their hybrid aspect that can produce a variety of effects.
		Rat kings are uncomfortable around any creatures other than rodents, and they prefer the company of common and giant rats even to other wererats.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Dungeon/6102/monsters/ratking.html (1328 words)

	OgreCave.com - Reviews - DCC #1: Idylls of the Rat King
		Physically, Idylls of the Rat King is a TSR scenario writ large.
		Yet Idylls of the Rat King includes several nods to contemporary sensibilities, not least of which is the severe loss of XP for putting the goblin females and young to the sword, so no wanton slaughter (a.k.a.
		The problem is that Idylls of the Rat King models itself upon those early modules and suffers from the same lack of inventiveness.
	www.ogrecave.com /reviews/dcc1_ratking.shtml (837 words)

	Otago Museum :: Dunedin, New Zealand
		In medieval times, if a rat king was found in a house, the women were condemned as witches and burned at the stake.
		A rat king is said to arise when a number of rats become intertwined at their tails and become stuck to each other with blood, dirt and excrements.
		It is possible that the tails become entangled when the rats huddle together facing outward for warmth and security, with urine and droppings from those in the upper circle falling onto the entwined mass of tails.
	www.otagomuseum.govt.nz /rat_king.html (348 words)

	The 11th Hour Web Magazine - Book Review - King Rat
		The rats have a king, King Rat -- aptly enough -- and he's been gnawing over plans of revenge for the last few centuries.
		King Rat comes to the rescue and like a Jedi master teaches young Saul the joy of being a rat.
		Possibly the most horrific scenes are those where King Rat introduces Saul to the delights of dining on garbage.
	www.the11thhour.com /archives/112000/bookreviews/kingrat.html (768 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: King Rat: Books: China Mieville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		King Rat engages him to kill the Ratcatcher and restore King Rat to his mastery over the Rat Nation.
		The Ratcatcher – as astute readers might have guessed – was once known as The Pied Piper of Hamelin, where King Rat was powerless to stop the drowning and thus lost the faith of the rats.
		Just finished reading King Rat, and I have to agree with most of the other reviews - the ideas are certainly inventive, points awarded for use of myth/fairytale in combination with contemporary culture, and an interesting anti-monarchy theme...
	www.amazon.co.uk /King-Rat-China-Mieville/dp/0330370987 (1620 words)

	nyc poetry poets lyric performance slam
		For spite, the rat bit a large hole in his pelt.
		Min understood he was tricked by the rat and his own want of a secret knowledge.
		Rat King Art poem prose play spoken word creature hunts angels with rage against the machine activist green peace environmental mature content.
	www.mjz1569.com /poetry/RatKingArt/ratking1.html (605 words)

	Leatherhead Meets the Rat King
		The Rat King captures him and explains his plan to rule the world with Leatherhead as his slave.
		Leatherhead explains the Rat King's plan to her and his intention to finish off the Turtles.
		Rats might be a pain in the arse, but at the end of the day they're just doing what they need to in order to survive.
	www.geocities.com /tmntdissected/LMTRK.htm (1075 words)

	King Rat - China Mieville
		Saul is rescued from the clutches of the police by an unlikely creature -- King Rat himself.
		Among the best parts of the novel are Mieville's descriptions of King Rat introducing Saul to his world and Saul discovering his own abilities and identity.
		King Rat also has his reasons for helping (and manipulating) Saul, but Saul begins to understand who the enemy is and how he might be conquered, leading to the predictable final showdown.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/mieville/kingrat.htm (708 words)

	User Reviews and comparison blog on King Rat - James Clavell - Book Title by deaser26 on MouthShut.com
		When James Clavell crafted the short and dynamic novel King Rat, he created such a world in miniature – a prison camp in Singapore during World War 2 where all men are created starving, where death and pain are the way of things.
		He was known as King Rat because he began a little cottage industry, raising, butchering and selling rat meat to the local Japanese and to some in the camp.
		They may sell rat meat for a while, they may sleep a little more restively and they may not have to work their way through school…but the test of their character comes in the daily grind.
	www.mouthshut.com /readreview/15949-1.html (787 words)

	China Miéville, King Rat
		King Rat, his first novel after years of writing short fiction, is both a fine urban fantasy and a well-crafted horror novel.
		King Rat's the same psychopathic sort of creep, with a fully developed taste for sadism.
		But when you buy the 2005 King Rat hardcover, as published by Earthling Publications (a press I can best describe as an award-winning specialty press that publishes fine limited editions of dark fiction), you are buying more than a classic of modern literature.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_mieville_kingrat.html (1091 words)

	Getting Rid of Rats
		If you have any questions and you reside in or the property in question is in King County, feel free to call the Public Health Environmental Health Office at (206) 205-4394.
		DEAD RATS must first be wrapped in newspaper, or placed in a plastic bag before putting it in a tightly covered garbage can.
		Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) is a severe illness caused by infection from exposure to the droppings of wild rodents that carry the virus.
	www.metrokc.gov /health/env_hlth/rats.htm (824 words)

	MY RAT KING
		RAT KING: a freak occurrence whereby a number of rats become tied at the tail and happen to die that way: all circled out like pie slices.
		The one rat was free, I saw, attending to his compatriots.
		And the puppet rat, "like this," he says, starts aping the movements of the rat trying to get into the garbage can, flinging his wooden self against the edge of the tub.
	www.the2ndhand.com /print2/story1.html (1485 words)

	King Rat: biography
		Following King Rat's hugely successful Midlands tour, the band appeared on the BBC Hereford and Worcester Friday Session.
		King Rat have built up a strong following on the London circuit playing venues such as The Islington Academy, Clapham Grand, Bull and Gate, Sound, The Garage, Metro, Underworld, Dublin Castle, Water Rats, West OneFour and Halfmoon Putney.
		King Rat's new album was launched at a packed Clapham Grand on Friday 12 May. It includes 10 songs and a video of Lightning in the Mind.
	www.kingrat.net /biog.html (520 words)

	Earthling Publications - Books
		Preorder/order a copy before June 1 from either Earthling or Camelot and you'll be entered to win a PC copy of the numbered, leatherbound, slipcased edition, with a special inscription by China, he says possibly "a piece about rats," as well as an original drawing of one of the characters by artist Richard Kirk.
		"KING RAT: a story so compelling you almost haven't time to notice how fine the writing is; a dark myth reinvented for our time and for London in particular with great wit, style, and imagination."
		"KING RAT goes down as sweetly as week-old garbage, to leave the reader eyeing speculatively the manhole covers of Soho and Battersea.
	www.earthlingpub.com /cm_rat.htm (488 words)

	George Segal: King Rat - Movie
		Based on a novel by James Clavell, King Rat tells the story of life in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II.
		George Segal plays corporal King, who is the big wheeler-dealer of the camp, buying and selling various items such as watches, ripping off anyone he can, but also handsomely paying off his cronies.
		Upon being liberated (led by none other than "Family Feud" host Richard Dawson), King realizes that he will be going back to being the low rung on the ladder (as a corporal), and shares none of the other prisoner's joy of freedom.
	www.superiorpics.com /george_segal/movie/1965_king_rat.html (825 words)

	The Rat King Rock Opera
		The last of the rats are getting made up in the hall of the hostel now, which means it's almost time to go to the theatre.
		Stephanie Markowitz is recalling the moment that her father, Murray, first attended a reading of the Rat King, and insightfully said, "It's like Cats, but Rats!" And that's exactly what it is. Except rather than draw on T.S. Eliot's lighter work, The Rat King draws on the spirit of the Hollowmen.
		In The Rat King, the music of the Theremin helps give voice to the furry feelings that are difficult to put to words, despite our lavish use of rhyming couplets.
	www.ratkingrockopera.blogspot.com (1669 words)

	Amazon.com: King Rat: Books: China Mieville
		Furthermore, it is inspired by the unlikeliest of sources, the Rat King legend and the Pied Piper of Hamelin fairy tale.
		Unlike his other two novels (which are brilliant in their own right) "King Rat" is raw, there's really no other way to say it, Mieville's words drip and fester like the sewers that are his settings, and his characters resonate with appropriately primal emotion.
		"King Rat" is the first stepping-stone in what I expect to be a brilliant career, and as such, it is a superb work in its own right, and even more so, within the context of a greater body of work.
	www.amazon.com /King-Rat-China-Mieville/dp/0312890729 (1795 words)

	TMNT Rat King Kitbash
		The Rat King was one of the earliest and worst culprits in this regard.
		Well, the Rat King was one of the duplicate figures I got in an eBay lot, so he became another victim of my TMNT kitbashing stint, not so much because he's a favorite character of mine but because he so desperately needed it.
		The next phase of the project was to chop off the offending rats, bugs, and bones attached to the character's outfit; this was an interesting challenge since I couldn't simply chop these parts off and call it done; I had to carefully cut the plastic into the shape of the bandages underneath.
	members.fortunecity.com /zobovor/rat_king_kitbash.html (578 words)

	TMNT Cartoon Episode 27 - ENTER THE RAT KING
		Meanwhile, April's abductor introduces himself as the Rat King and that the city's rat population are his loyal followers.
		The Rat King tells her that mere turtles are no match for his army of rats.
		In the eventual struggle, one of the Rat King's explosive devices drops onto the sewer floor, causing everyone to scatter, thus allowing the Rat King to escape.
	www.ninjaturtles.com /cartoon/guide/cart027.htm (579 words)

	Tangled-tails Tales
		They are clusters of rats whose tails have somehow become knotted or glued together.
		Squirrel kings have even received a modicum of attention in the scientific literature: Animal Kingdom, 55:46, 1952.
		Our catalog Biological Anomalies: Mammals I also deals with the problem of "rat kings." Information on this volume as well as our handbook Incredible Life can be found here.
	www.science-frontiers.com /sf083/sf083b06.htm (313 words)

	King Rat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		King Rat (1962 novel), by James Clavell set in World War II King Rat (1965 film), based on the novel
		King Rat, the head of the Grand Order of Water Rats, a music hall society of Great Britain.
		King Rat was the nickname of the British terrorist Billy Wright, and an autobiography he wrote detailing his criminal activities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/King_Rat (146 words)

	King Rat!
		As a member of the 366th Combat Security Police at Tan Son Nhut, Viet Nam, I was assigned a sandbag bunker, guarding the transient ammo dump.
		The rats' reinforcements arrived: The night commander was making his rounds, checking posts.
		The grinning TSgt had obviously ratted on me. It was not a pretty sight as I tried to explain about the Godzilla rats and my valiant defense of government property (me), the C-rations, and the Droppler Effect (whatever) when a helmet is propelled at a certain trajectory and bounces when gooing a rat.
	members.aol.com /thays46945/Kingrat.htm (772 words)

	Rat King Cartoons
		Rat King cartoon 1 - catalog reference cgan475
		Related topics: rat, rats, rodent, rodents, army, armies, militant, armed forces, armed force, special service, king, rat king, kings, royal, royalty, royals, good army, castle, kings castle, kings army, army of rats,
		Copyright in this image is owned by the original artist, rights to reproduce or use the image may be obtained from www.CartoonStock.com.
	www.cartoonstock.com /directory/r/rat_king.asp (146 words)

	Grand Order of Water Rats Official Website
		He received his Baby Rats collar after Nicko McBrain was relieved of it to become a Red Collar Rat.
		His proposer, Past Prince Rat Ken Joy, pinned that famous little gold Rat into his lapel and said he knew our new 'Baby' would be a great addition to our ranks.
		The tradition of receiving the egg for a weak or poor gag was introduced in 1948 by Rats Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
	www.gowr.net (1063 words)

	GOWR Shop
		Presented by King Rat Bernard Bresslaw, they were produced to celebrate our Centenary in 1989 and feature 'Magpie' the trotting pony that got us started.
		He was King Rat twice in 1954 and 1973.
		Jimmy and Steve have been Water Rats since 1968 and this book, written by Steve in his own inimitable way, charts their lives through depression hit America to the present day and is full of amazing characters they met and worked with along the way.
	www.gowr.net /Shop/gowrshop.html (1122 words)

	Rat king art poem prose play performance art mjz1569.com spoken word synopsis
		Rat king art poem prose play performance art mjz1569.com spoken word synopsis
		For reasons unknown, the Rat orchestrated Min's original demise and now forces him to create demonic art from the Angels he hunts every night.
		Min..... A creature fallen from eden and now possesed by the rat king.
	www.mjz1569.com /poetry/RatKingArt/index.html (235 words)

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