#" Fighting the Mosquito Wars " ( Payne ) – 6: 43

* 1862 – American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.

The Mosquito Coast based on Bluefields on the Atlantic was claimed by the United Kingdom as a protectorate from 1655 to 1850.

Randolph, which is home to Dominion Park Beach, is actually on the city's largest island, joined to Milford by the Canal Bridge over Mosquito Cove on Greenhead Road.

During the night 29 – 30 January 1943, Chapman with MI5 officers faked a sabotage attack on his target, the de Havilland aircraft factory in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, where the Mosquito was being manufactured.

* Mosquito Fact Sheet highlights prevention tips as well as information on habits, habitat and health threats

The proboscis of a female mosquito – here a Southern House Mosquito ( Culex quinquefasciatus )-pierces the epidermis ( skin ) | epidermis and dermis to allow it to Blood meal | feed on human blood from a capillary: this one is almost fully engorged.

The most significant third source was Black River and adjacent areas on the Mosquito Coast ( now Republic of Honduras ), from where quantities of mahogany were shipped from the 1740s onwards.

Both forks rise along the eastern flank of the Mosquito Range, on the western side of South Park, which is drained by the tributaries at the headwaters of the river.

During the Second World War RAF aircraft that were secret or carrying secret equipment had "/ G " ( for " Guard ") appended to the serial, denoting that the aircraft was to have an armed guard at all times while on the ground, e. g., LZ548 / G — the prototype de Havilland Vampire jet fighter, or ML926 / G — a de Havilland Mosquito XVI experimentally fitted with H2S radar.

In 1911, he began presenting animated films on stage, first an animation of Little Nemo in Slumberland, then How a Mosquito Operates.

Feldman's first choice of director was Peter Weir, but he was involved in pre-production work for The Mosquito Coast and passed on the project.

Other creeks found on the right bank ( south and west ) of the West Branch Susquehanna River in Lycoming County are relatively minor, including Antes Creek in the Nippenose valley ( in Limestone and Nippenose Townships ), Mosquito Creek ( at Duboistown ), Hagermans Run ( at South Williamsport ), and Black Hole Creek ( at Montgomery ).

In 1847, a flour mill and a saw mill were built on Mosquito Creek, southwest of the present site of Underwood.

Having returned to operational duties in 1944 after pestering Bomber Command, 25-year-old Gibson was killed along with his navigator, Sqn Ldr Jim Warwick, on a bombing raid on Rheydt ( nowadays a borough of Mönchengladbach ) operating as a Pathfinder Master Bomber based at RAF Coningsby, when his de Havilland Mosquito XX, KB267, crashed near Steenbergen on 19 September 1944.

* Mosquito Point – A location near the south town line on the east end of Haiti Island.

Cortland is a city in Trumbull County, Ohio, United States located on the eastern shore of Mosquito Creek Reservoir.

In the early 19th century, Heaton built a forge and, later, a charcoal blast furnace in the area just east of what is now the city's central park, on the west side of Mosquito Creek.

All visitors are required to sign in at the offices at the filtration plant on the end of Mosquito Valley Road in Armstrong Township.

It is situated at the mouth of Mosquito Run on the banks of the West Branch Susquehanna River.

All visitors are required to sign in at the offices at the filtration plant on the end of Mosquito Valley Road in Armstrong Township.

Several films were made there including The War Lover, 633 Squadron, Hanover Street, an episode of the Persuaders, The Man With The Golden Gun ( the flying car scene ) and Mosquito Squadron.

With Harris ' support, Bennett formed more Mosquito squadrons to expand the LNSF ; giving him 9 bomber squadrons as well as the Oboe-equipped markers and 8 Group's own meteorological Mosquitos.

With the construction of the new hangar it was now possible to display the restored De Havilland Mosquito and Lockheed Hudson.

World War two saw the beginning of the widespread use of high speed bombers which dispensed with defensive weapons to be able to attain higher speed, such as with the de Havilland Mosquito, a philosophy that continued with many Cold War bombers.

* Mosquito restoration project New Zealand ( 633 Squadron theme ) Retrieved: 3 January 2012.

* Wartime film of the construction of the Mosquito in Australia Retrieved: 3 January 2012.

* U-Tube footage of Coastal Command Mosquito XVIIIs Retrieved: 3 January 2012.

* IWM Image of Mosquito PR34 RG241, which holds the twin piston-engine Atlantic crossing record.

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This was one of Essendon's most famous sides, dubbed the " Mosquito Fleet ", due to the number of small, very fast players in the side.

He is a mosquito, created in honour of the team's back-to-back Premierships side in the 1920s known as the Mosquito Fleet.

Among the groups found along northern coast and in neighboring Nicaragua were the Miskito, who although organized in democratic and egalitarian way, had an institution of king, and hence were known as the Mosquito Kingdom.

On the basis of a land grant made to him by the Anglophile native King of the Mosquito people in what is present-day Honduras, MacGregor wove one of history's most elaborate hoaxes, managing to charm the highest levels of London's political and financial establishment with tales of the bucolic, resource-rich country he claimed to rule as a benevolent sovereign prince, or " Cazique ", when he arrived in the UK in 1822.

Zelaya ended the longstanding dispute with the United Kingdom over the Atlantic coast in 1894, and " reincorporated " the Mosquito Coast into Nicaragua.

* 1940 – World War II: First flight of the deHavilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.

The US was worried about the poverty and political instability of Nicaragua, as well as the rival strategic and economic interests of the British government, which controlled both British Honduras ( later Belize ) and the Mosquito Coast.

Two humorous papers, The Bug ( 1888 ) and the Mosquito ( 1888 ) were similarly short-lived.

Foday Sankoh, already in custody, was indicted, along with notorious RUF field commander Sam " Mosquito " Bockarie, Johnny Paul Koroma, and Hinga Norman, the Minister of Interior and former head of the Civil Defense Force, among several others.