Friday, December 19, 2008

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.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

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.).

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

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.