Susan Butcher ditarod winner

Susan Butcher Iditarod Winner

Susan was the first women to win the Iditarod. She landed in second place. The thing that makes her important is that she has won more than one race before. She trains between six to sixteen hours a day, usually seven days a week . Susan trains herself through running, cycling, weight lifting program, and then for about nine months of a year she can actually use a sled. She mushes 50 to 70 miles a day. It takes her 1,161 miles across the Alaskan wilderness, enduring 100m.p.h winds, artisc blizzards, snow blindness, wild animals, thin ice, sleep deprivation, avalanches, and whatever else nature feels like throwing at a person up in the land of the midnighst sun, and she wins three times in a row. Of I were in this race I would even be able to handle the cold like Susan Butcher did.

The Best and Worst Selling Cars

The Best and Worst Selling Cars

In a year when gas prices topped $4 a gallon and automakers ran to Congress seeking a $25 billion bailout, one would assume that low-margin, fuel-guzzlers. Indeed, sevenof the 10 best-selling vehicles so far this year are small cars or sedans that get high gas mileage. But when gas prices go up and the economy heads south,"buyers shift.....from what they want to what they need," says Jeff Bartlett.The F-150 attracted 473,933 buyers this year, making it the No. 1-selling vehicle for 2008--it's been the best-selling vehicle in America for 27 years running.

Mount Everest

Mount Everest

Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth. It is located in China and India. It is also called the Sagarmatha or Chomolunga. Do you Think Mountains Grow?? Well Mount Everest grows a quater of an inch every year.The mountain, which is part of the Himalaya range in High Asia, is located on the border between Sagamartha Zone, Nepal, and Tibet, China. The highest mountain in the world attracts climbers of all levels, from well experienced mountaineers to novice climbers willing to pay substantial sums to professional mountain guides to complete a successful climb. The mountain, while not posing substantial technical climbing difficulty on the standard route. When i grow up i will love to go climb Mount Everest.

December 17, 1903

The First Flight

On this date Orville Wright piloted the first powered airplane 20 feet above a wind-swept beach in North Carolina. the flight lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. Three more flights were made that day with Orville's brother Wilbur piloting the record flight lasting 59 seconds over a distance of 852 feet.

NASA Space Shuttle

NASA Space Shuttle

The NASA space shuttle is white and big. They landed in California because there was cold weather and they were repairing and upgrading the international space station. The shuttle program's 124th misssion remodeled the space station, doubled its crew capacity to 6 and repaired a rotating joint on a solor wing. Endouver delivered diivered a new bathroom, kitchenette,exercise machine, two slepping quarters , and a recycling system that convertsastrounauts' urine and sweat into rinking water.

Jules the talking Robot

Jules the Talking Robot

Jules the talking robot was built by David Hanson. Jules could frown, smile and look slightly skeptical. In addition, Jules could make eye contact—of a sort. I think that this robot looks like a real person. The first time I saw him i thougt it was a human but then I read the caption and found out that it was a robot.

Dubia Mall

Dubia Mall

The Dubai mall was constructed in Dubia,United Arab Emirates by owner Emaar Properties. The Dubia Mall is the largest mall ever built on the planet. The 20-billion-dollar project has 1,200 shops, 4 times as many as the new London Westfield center.Sprawling over 12 million sq ft (example its equivalent to 50 soccer pitches) the Dubai Mall has a total floor area of 5.9 million square feet and a space of 3.77 million square feet about the same as West Edmonton Mall. I would love to go shopping here cause it seems pretty big and one of these days I will.