Wikipedia random article game.

Found this interesting becuase my last name Thatcher.......my very distant family must have been poor.

Thatching

A thatched pub (The Williams Arms) at Wrafton, near Braunton, North Devon, EnglandThatching is the art and craft of covering a roof with vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge, rushes and heather. It is probably the oldest roofing material and has been used in both tropical and temperate climates throughout the world. Thatch is still commonly employed by traditional builders in developing countries, usually with low-cost, local vegetation. In Western Europe it is no longer a roofing material of the poor.

Hemiptera is a large, cosmopolitan order of insects, comprising some 67,500 known species in three suborders. Traditionally these taxa were treated as two separate orders, Homoptera (Auchenorrhyncha and Sternorrhyncha) and Heteroptera; the former name is now obsolete (the group was paraphyletic), and the latter name is falling into disuse, often replaced by Prosorrhyncha. Referring latest investigations the name Auchenorrhyncha should also be replaced by Archeorrhyncha and Clyeporrhyncha.

Members of the "Heteroptera" are typically called true bugs, and this name sometimes is used for members of "Hemiptera" as a whole. The name heteroptera comes from their forewings having both membranous and hard portions. It is also essentially this same feature which gives the order its name, hemiptera, coming from the Greek for half-wing.

Members of the Hemiptera are distinguished from all other insects by both adults and nymphs having a proboscis that includes a salivary channel as well as a food channel. The proboscis is usually specialized to suck the juices from various parts of plants, including seeds, although some species are predatory (on arthropods and sometimes other small animals), and a few are adapted to suck blood from mammals. In addition, the space between the overlapping wings in the members of this order forms a triangular shape near the head which is commonly used to identify a true bug.

Sternorrhyncha

Auchenorrhyncha

Coleorrhyncha

Heteroptera

Contents
[hide]

* 1 Suborder Prosorrhyncha
* 2 Suborder Archaeorrhyncha
* 3 Suborder Clypeorrhyncha
* 4 Suborder Sternorrhyncha
* 5 External links

[edit] Suborder Prosorrhyncha

There are 25,000 known species in over 60 families.
Aphids
Aphids

[edit] Suborder Archaeorrhyncha

Some authors prefer this name to refer to the Fulgoromorpha, or Planthoppers.

[edit] Suborder Clypeorrhyncha

This name is sometimes used to refer to the Cicadomorpha.

[edit] Suborder Sternorrhyncha

There are 12,500 species.

[edit] External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
Hemiptera

* Truebug Net: Excellently designed site on most aspects of Hemiptera. Beautifully illustrated.
* General description and economic impact
* Descriptions of some important or interesting species
* Tree of Life project

Tokyo Sky Paradise Orchestra

Founded in 1985 by Asa-Chang, the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra (東京スカパラダイスオーケスト&#12521😉, commonly abbreviated as "Skapara", was initially comprised of more than 10 veterans of Tokyo's underground scene. At the time, the band's sound was unlike that of any of its contemporaries in the then fledgling Japanese ska scene, and over the course of the past 21 years, their innovation has proved to have been very influential on Japanese music as a whole. Its sound, the product of the musical influences of its numerous members, is an eclectic mix of traditional ska, jazz, and rock. In the vein of many other more traditional ska acts, many of Skapara's songs are purely instrumental.

Since its inception, the band has done countless live performances in the streets and clubs of Tokyo, and has toured both Europe and the United States. Although many fans, artists, and record companies outside of Japan have expressed interest in facilitating the expansion of the band's popularity to a global level, its music remains largely unavailable in most of the rest of the world. Despite this, however, the band enjoys great commercial success and popularity within Japan, where its records have consistently climbed the music charts.

Party Up

Party Up is a song by rapper DMX.

Party Up is one of DMX's most well known songs and is from his best selling album ...And Then There Was X, released in 1999. The track featured on the computer game Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004. There have been 3 versions of the song so far. One is the explicit/album version. The other is the censored album version, and then there's the highly censored radio/video edit which is much more censored then the clean album version.

~Da Moose~
Strangelove

R40 (New York City Subway car)
The R40 (sometimes referred to as R40 Slant to distinguish it from the later R40M) is a New York City Subway IND–BMT car, built in 1967–69 by the St. Louis Car Company, St. Louis, Missouri. These cars were unique for their 10 degree slanted end, designed by Raymond Loewy of Studebaker fame. This order was supposed to be 400 cars and also it was supposed to be linked as a 5-car set instead of married pairs.

The first R40 set was delivered in November, 1967. In January, 1968, and the first cars went into service on the F service (6 Avenue Local).

The New York City Transit Authority found great dangers with the slant, with the lack of handholds for riders walking between cars, the danger of the passenger falling onto the track and other flaws in the design. All R40 cars were later retrofitted with pantograph gates at the ends. With the poorly conceived slant design, NYCTA had the last 100 R40 cars (R40M) built with a non-slant end similar to the R42. 200 R40A's (100 R40A slants and 100 "R40M"😉 were built with original air conditioning.

In 1988–1989 the R40's were rebuilt by Sumitomo in Elmira Heights, New York.

Currently, R40 cars can be found on the B, N, and W services. They are also used to provide extra service on the D during games at Yankee Stadium and the Q on weekends during the holidays or when construction is taking place. They are based at Coney Island Complex yard in Brooklyn.

The R160B is scheduled to replace the R40 by 2010.

The R40 slant cars are numbered 4150-4449. The R40M cars are numbered 4450-4549.

The Campbell-Stokes recorder is a kind of sunshine recorder. It was invented by John Francis Campbell in 1853 and later modified in 1879 by Sir George Gabriel Stokes. The original design by Campbell consisted of a glass sphere set into a wooden bowl with the sun burning a trace on the bowl. Stokes's refinement was to make the housing out of metal and to have a card holder set behind the sphere.

This basic unit is still in use today with very little change. It is probably the most common sunshine recorder in use today, outside of the United States where the Marvin sunshine recorder is the instrument generally used by the National Weather Service.

The unit is designed to record the hours of bright sunshine which will burn a hole through the card. However, at sunrise and sunset the sun is lower in the sky and will tend to leave a scorch mark on the card which may at the extreme end be difficult to see.

The glass sphere - typically 10 cm (4 inches) in diameter - is designed to focus the rays from the sun onto a card mounted at the back and is set on a stand. The card is held in place by grooves of which there are three overlapping sets, to allow for the height of the sun during different seasons of the year. In the northern hemisphere the winter card is used from the 15th of October to the 29th of February, the equinox card from the 01st March to the 11th of April and the 03rd of September to 14th of October. The summer card is therefore used from the 12th of April to 02 of September. Each card is marked as to the hour, with local noon being in the centre, and is read in 10th's. The unit is set in a stand facing south to enable the maximum amount of sun to be recorded. Of course it is of great importance to set the unit in an area where the sun will not be blocked by buildings, trees or flagpoles.

A modification to the standard unit for Polar regions is the addition of a second, north facing, sphere and card, to record the sunlight during the summer when it remains in the sky for 24 hours.