Susan Butcher

Susan Butcher was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her love for animals drew her to Alaska when she was 20 years old. She eventually rose to became the most famous dog musher in the world.She was the first person to win three consecutive Iditarod championchips. Butcher lived with her husband, fellow dogsled racer David Monson, where they raised two daughters and a pack of wonderful sled dogs. In 2006, she died of leukemia at the age of 51. In the years following her death, the state of Alaska honored her in a number of ways.

This years best selling cars

The F-150 attracted 473,933 buyers this year, making it the #1 selling vehicle for 2008. 431,725 drove off Chevrolet lots in a Silverado.Buyers purchased 352,248 Honda Civics and 184,152 Ford Focus cars this year. Joining the two trucks and the Civic in the top five best-selling vehicles so far this year are the Toyota Camry(411,342 sold) and Honda Accord (350,638 sold).As bad of a year as it's been for sales of the aforementioned Armada, it's not the worst-selling vehicle in 2008. That title goes to Hyundai Entourage minivan, with only 5,405 sold this year. Not far behind , at # 4, is the Chrysler Pacifica, a cross between an SUV and a minivan that sold only 6,671 units so far this year.

Mt. Everest

Mt. Everest also called Sagarmatha is the highest mountain in Earth. The mountain which is part of the Himalaya range in High Asia, is located in the border between Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal, and Tibet, China.The mountain stills has many inheret dangers such as altitude sickness. This mountainb grows about a quarter an inch every year. On October 9, 2005, after several months of measurement and calculation, the PRC's State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping officially announced the height of Everest as 8,844.43 m ± 0.21 m (29,017.16 ± 0.69 ft.).

space shuttle

Space Shuttle Endeavour slipped out of from a desert sky and safely touched down in California

after a 16-day mission to fix the international space station.The shuttle's 124th mission remodeled the space station. austronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper lost a $100,000 tool bag to repair the solar wing joint.

space station

A space station is an artificial structure designed for humans to live in outer space.Space stations are currently (as of 2007) used to study the effects of long-term space flight on the human body as well as to provide platforms for greater number and length of scientific studies than available on other space vehicles.Space stations have been used for both military and civilian purposes. The last military-use space station was Salyut 5, which was used by the Almaz program of the Soviet Union in 1976 and 1977.

Gules

UK robotics researchers have taken up the task of creating a robot that would reproduce human facial expressions most accurately, and it seems they succeeded. Jules, the result of their combined efforts, is a bodyless talking robot head that can make use of its 34 under-skin servo motors in order to move its facial "muscles," such as lips, eyebrows or foreheadThe scientists from the University of Bristol have managed to develop a piece of software that would transmit images of a human face to the robot's "brain", which will appropriately adjust the motion of the engines, which in turn will move the rubber skin and the eyes in order for the robotic face to reflect the respective images. .

Gibraltar Bridge

The Gibraltar Bridge is a conceptual structure spanning the strait of Gibraltar that would connect Europe to Africa. A bridge between Europe and Africa would facilitate tarde, but would also introduce human problems.Several engineers had advanced designs fro the Gibraltar bridge.