Jack Black (rat catcher)
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title:
Jack Black (rat catcher)
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Jack Black was a rat-catcher and mole destroyer from Battersea, England during the middle of the 19th century. 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 been called the rat's "most notorious enemy," he did not kill all rats. Black bred unusually colored rats and sold them as pets, playing a large role in domesticatin
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Nineteenth-century British rat catcher
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Black_(rat_catcher)
date created:
2004-01-06T14:37:32Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T12:56:55Z
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