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.

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.

He then starred as Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott's cult sci-fi classic Blade Runner ( 1982 ), and in a number of dramatic-action films: Peter Weir's Witness ( 1985 ) and The Mosquito Coast ( 1986 ), and Roman Polanski's Frantic ( 1988 ).

It was followed by the darker, less commercial The Mosquito Coast ( 1986 ), Paul Schrader's adaptation of Paul Theroux's novel, with Ford playing a man obsessively pursuing his dream to start a new life in the Central American jungle with his family.

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.

* Mosquito Coast ( Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast )-This area was first settled in 1630.

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.

Actor River Phoenix during his teen years became a teen idol during the later part of the 1980s with films such as Stand By Me, Mosquito Coast, A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon.

She then appeared in The Mosquito Coast ( 1986 ) portraying Emily Spellgood.

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.

He had significant roles in Rob Reiner's coming of age picture Stand by Me ( 1986 ) which first brought Phoenix to public prominence ; Peter Weir's The Mosquito Coast ( 1986 ), where Phoenix played the son of Harrison Ford's character ; A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon ( 1988 ); and Little Nikita ( 1988 ) alongside Sidney Poitier.

The City of Belize has been featured in two movies: The Dogs of War ( 1980 ), starring Christopher Walken and The Mosquito Coast ( 1986 ), starring Harrison Ford.

* Paul Theroux-The Mosquito Coast

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

Britain had large and indefinite territorial claims in three regions: British Honduras ( present-day Belize ), the Mosquito Coast ( the region along the Atlantic coast of present-day Nicaragua and Honduras ) and the Bay Islands ( now part of Honduras ).

# Finally, it stipulated that neither signatory would ever " occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume or exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito Coast or any part of Central America ," nor make use of any protectorate or alliance, present or future, to such ends.

.. 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.

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.

The United States contended that the Bay Islands were not the " dependencies " of Belize, which were the small neighboring islands mentioned in the same treaties, and nothing else ; that the excepted " settlement " was the British-Honduras of definite extent and narrow purpose recognized in British treaties with Spain ; that the United States had not confirmed by recognition the large, indefinite and offensive claims whose dangers the treaty was primarily designed to lessen ; and that, as to the Mosquito Coast, the treaty was retrospective, and mutual in the rigor of its requirements.

Binding both not to " occupy " any part of Central America or the Mosquito Coast necessitated the abandonment of such territory as the United Kingdom was already actually occupying or exercising dominion over ; and the United States demanded the complete abandonment of the British protectorate over the Mosquito Indians.

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

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.

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.

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.

Mosquito saliva is a pharmacological cocktail of secreted molecules, principally proteins, that can affect vascular constriction, blood coagulation, platelet aggregation, inflammation, and immunity.

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.

Put together in December 1911, and released in 1912, McCay's second film ( also known as The Story of a Mosquito ) is one of the earliest examples of line-drawn animation.

The European pennyroyal, Mentha pulegium, ( also called Squaw Mint, Mosquito Plant, and Pudding Grass ), is a plant in the mint genus, within the family Lamiaceae.

Mosquito Lake is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Haines Borough, Alaska, United States.

Mosquito Lake is located at ( 59. 427723 ,-136. 163435 ).

Edgewater is a city in Volusia County, Florida, United States, situated along the Indian River, adjacent to the Mosquito Lagoon.

View is to the north. Mosquito Creek Reservoir at Cortland, Ohio.

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.

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

Armstrong Township is not limited to Mosquito Valley alone.

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

An example of a larger molded plywood aircraft is the de Havilland Mosquito fighter / light bomber of World War II.

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.

( Mosquito Pass is no longer a practical transportation route, but is now a historical and recreation site.

) On its southwestern side, at the southern end of the Mosquito Range, it is connected by Trout Creek Pass to the upper valley of the Arkansas River near Buena Vista.