Mount Everest

Mount Everest, also called Sagarmatha, is the world's highest mountain. It is 29,002 feet high. People are only allowed to climb it 3 weeks a year for half a million dollars and many people have died on it. It is also one of the mountains affected by GLOBAL WARMING.

December 17, 1903

On December 17, 1903, 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.

The Chunnel

The Channel Tunnel (French: Le tunnel sous la Manche), also known by the portmanteau Chunnel[1], is a 50.5 km (31.4 mi) undersea rail tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent in England with Coquelles near Calais in northern France beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover. At its lowest point it is 75 m (250 ft) deep.[2] It has the longest undersea portion of any tunnel in the world, although Japan's Seikan Tunnel is longer overall at 53.85 km (33.5 mi) and reaches a depth of 240 m (790 ft).
The tunnel carries high-speed Eurostar passenger trains, Eurotunnel ro-ro vehicle transport and international rail freight trains. In 1996 the American Society of Civil Engineers identified the tunnel as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.

Space Shuttle News

Space shuttles Endeavor has landed in California on the last day of November after some bad weather at the main Florida landing site. Also...wait...what? They have something that can convert urine into into water? Uhh....Cool? Also, they repaired their solar-wing joint. In their mission they remodeled the space station and doubled its crew capacity to six.