In 2011 it was revealed the Mosquito may also have been shot down in a friendly fire incident.

.. nor the small islands in the neighborhood of that settlement which may be known as its dependencies "; that the treaty's engagements did apply to all the Central American states, " with their just limits and proper dependencies " ( meaning, apparently, the Mosquito Coast and the Bay Islands ); and that these declarations, not being submitted to the United States Senate, could of course not affect the legal import of the treaty.

Motifs of Cohl's can be found in Little Nemo and later films by McCay: the dots coalescing into Little Nemo reflect effects in Un Drame chez les fantoches and Les Joyeaux Microbes ; the metamorphosis of the rose into the Princess may have been inspired by Fantasmagorie ; the titular character of The Story of a Mosquito ( 1912 ) sharpening his beak comes from Un Drame chez les fantoches ; the live-action / animation interaction of McCay throwing a pumpkin to Gertie the Dinosaur ( 1914 ) may have been an answer to the matador hurling his hatchet at the moon in " Clair de lune espagnol ".

Mosquito may also refer to:

The Mosquito Coast is also notable for an impressive performance by the young River Phoenix.

It was briefly assigned to Honduras in 1859 along with the Bay Islands north of the country, then ceded to Nicaragua in 1860 and the area was disputed until a treaty in 1965 divided the Mosquito coast for each country.

From Canada the Fairmile launches for anti-submarine use and Mosquito photo-reconnaissance aircraft.

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.

He was then a journalist for the Financial Times before serving with the Royal Air Force, during which he flew Meteor and Vampire jets and once had to break open the cockpit canopy of a burning Mosquito aircraft to escape from it.

It was used for several World War II fighter aircraft, including the British-built Mosquito bomber, which was nicknamed " The Wooden Wonder ".

Rarebit Fiend has been the inspiration for a number of films, including Edwin S. Porter's live-action Dream of the Rarebit Fiend in 1906, as well as four pioneering animated films by McCay himself: How a Mosquito Operates in 1912, and 1921's Bug Vaudeville, The Pet and The Flying House.

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.

Then, as financial backing for The Mosquito Coast fell through, Weir became free to direct Witness, which was his first American film.

Casein-based glues were popular for woodworking, including for aircraft, as late as the de Havilland Mosquito.

This would begin a trend of Plimpton being typecast in the role of a rebellious tomboy for several years, beginning with her critically lauded performance as the Reverend Spellgood ( Andre Gregory )' s daughter in the 1986 film The Mosquito Coast, starring Harrison Ford.

Paisley is home to the Mosquito Festival which raises funds for vector control.

Mosquito Run and Hagerman's Run still provide drinking water for Williamsport.

It was originally established as a summer community and was a stop for Mosquito Fleet ferries until the 1950s.

The Offshore Patrol ( Mosquito Fleet ) was a small naval force, intended for inshore defenses, of the Philippine Army.

Similarly, the de Havilland Mosquito fast bomber was later adapted for both day and night fighter use.

As it is low-density but high in strength, balsa is a very popular material to use when making light, stiff structures in model bridge tests, model tree houses, and for the construction of model aircraft, as well as full-sized light wooden aeroplanes, most famously the World War II de Havilland Mosquito.

* James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children, and Paul Theroux, The Mosquito Coast

Britain claimed that the excepted " settlement " at Honduras was the " Belize " covered by the extreme British claim ; that the Bay Islands were a dependency of Belize ; and that, as for the Mosquito Coast, the abnegatory clauses being wholly prospective in intent, she was not required to abandon her protectorate.

In 1846, tiring of routine, he left the regiment after only nine months for the Prussian settlement on the Mosquito Coast of Central America.

The British and Miskito definition applied to the whole eastern seaboard of Nicaragua — and even to La Mosquitia in Honduras, i. e., the coast region as far west as the Río Negro or Tinto – the Mosquito Coast more came in the later part of the century to be considered a narrow strip of territory, fronting the Caribbean Sea, and extending from about 11 ° 45 ’ to 14 ° 10 ’ N. It stretched inland for an average distance of, and measured about from north to south.

As northern Europeans, particularly English and Dutch privateers entered the region, they found the Caribbean coast of Central America, particularly the Mosquito Coast, a good place to refit and rest, as well as serving for a base.

On the critically successful 2002 Queens of the Stone Age album Songs for the Deaf, Dean played guitar on " Mosquito Song ", " Gonna Leave You ", and " Six Shooter ".

The first instance of a mobile virus occurred in June 2004 when it was discovered that a company called Ojam had engineered an anti-piracy Trojan virus in older versions of their mobile phone game Mosquito.

** Mosquito bites are responsible for the transmission of dengue fever and malaria.

Mosquito: The mosquito serves as a biological vector and intermediate host – it is required for the developmental cycle and transmission of B. malayi.

During the 1830s and 1840s, following the emancipation of slaves in the British West Indies ( 1838 ), a number of free Afro-West Indians began migrating to the Mosquito coast, settling at a number of points along the coast making their living by subsistence activities and fitting into the life style of the local people.

On 17 August 1943, a Mosquito crashed following a stall in the circuit, crashing onto a house in Dyce village ; another Mosquito on 10 April 1944 crashed on approach to the airfield.

He made significant improvements to their transmissions following a risky flight in a De Havilland Mosquito aircraft over occupied Norway to study the effects of Nazi radio jamming.

Disbandment did not last long however, the following day No. 128 Squadron, operating Mosquito B. 16s at RAF Wahn in Germany, was renumbered No. 14 squadron and the squadron lived again.

* Mosquito, Grizzly Bear's Head, Lean Man First Nations ( also known as Battleford Stoneys ) ( includes the following reserves: Mosquito # 109, Cold Eagle, Grizzly Bear ` s Head # 110 & Lean Man # 111, Mosquito Grizzly Bear ` s Head Lean Man Tle # 1, Tribal Headquarters and Administration are 27 km south of Battleford, ca.

On 24 March 1928, the Abadía Administration under Manuel Esguerra, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Colombia to Managua, negotiated and signed the Esguerra-Bárcenas Treaty with José Bárcenas Meneses, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua, in which Nicaragua recognized the sovereignty of Colombia over the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina and by which Colombia ceded claims over the Mosquito Coast, both territories that belonged to Colombia uti possidetis juris following Independence from Spain.

In 1970, the collection was joined by a further example of the de Havilland Mosquito, which had been donated by Liverpool Corporation, following its use in the film ' Mosquito Squadron '.

Spending the winter in Key West, the ship sailed for Greytown, on the Mosquito Coast, in the spring of 1853.

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.

* " Mosquito Wars on U-Boats With 6-pound Shells.

* 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.

* 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.

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.

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

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.

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.