Coleoptera ( /koʊliːˈɒptərə/) is an order of insects commonly called beetles. The word "coleoptera" is from the Greek κολεός, koleos, meaning "sheath"; and πτερόν, pteron, meaning "wing", thus "sheathed wing". The reason for the name is that most beetles have two pairs of wings, the front pair, the "elytra", being hardened and thickened into a sheath-like, or shell-like, protection for the rear pair, and for the rear part of the beetle's body. The superficial consistency of most beetles' morphology, in particular their possession of elytra, has long suggested that the Coleoptera are monophyletic, but there is growing evidence that this is unjustified, there being arguments for example, in favour of allocating the current suborder Adephaga their own order, or very likely even more than one.
The order Coleoptera includes more species than any other order, constituting almost 25% of all known life-forms. About 40% of all described insect species are beetles (about 400,000 species), and new species are discovered frequently. Some estimates put the total number of species, described and undescribed, at as high as 100 million, but a figure of 1 million is more widely accepted. The largest taxonomic family, the Curculionidae (the weevils or snout beetles), also belongs to this order.
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Profilez is about a Black NY teen caught within a racial profiling and Stop-and-Frisk era. Worm strolls his Brooklyn neighborhood on his way home from having lunch, but gets stopped in his tracks by a meddlesome crew of hoodlums and a lingering White cop. He just wants to get home with no trouble!
You Damn Well Won't Forget Him!
What did they do to the nicest town in the county to make it erupt in revenge? What did they do to the All-American boy to make him explode into The No-Mercy Man
If you cross him...he'll kill ya!...Stone dead!
He was war, then peace left the city.
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Melvin Van Peebles wrote, directed, produced, edited, composed and starred in this powerful and inflammatory attack on White America. After the body of a black man is discovered, Sweetback helps two white 'acquaintances' in the police force to look good by agreeing to go with them to the station as a suspect. But he is forced to go on the run after brutally attacking the two policemen when they arrest and beat up a young black man.
Keywords: 1940s, 1970s, african-american, african-american-child, african-americans, anti-racism, avant-garde, betrayal, biker, biker-babe
The Film that THE MAN doesn't want you to see!
Rated X by an all white jury
Dedicated to all the Brothers and Sisters who have had enough of the Man
Sweet Sweetback will never die a natural death.
You bled my Momma--You bled my Poppa--But you won't bleed me.
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Daniel Bone ('Eddie Albert (I)' (qv)) leaves his Bowery gunsmith shop in New York City to seek his fortune in the American West, and, on the train, meets Liza Crockett (Gale Storm'), also heading west, where her father had been murdered after discovering a gold mine. The Pecos Kid ('Gilbert Roland (I)') tries to steal Liz's map to the mine, but is accidentally foiled by Dan'l. Liz and Dan'l part, after a quarrel, but meet again in Arsenic City where the mine is located.
Keywords: 1870s, 19th-century, b-movie, b-western, bowery-manhattan-new-york-city, cigarette-smoking, claim-in-title, drinking, drummer, drunkenness
HE WAS A GOOD MAN...AMONG THE BAD! (original print media ad - all caps)
Texas Jack Barton: Man alive! Where did a DUDE learn to shoot like that?::Daniel Bone: I told you. I'm a gunsmith. How would I know if I fixed a gun right if I couldn't shoot?