A modern mobile crane with outriggers. The latticed boom is fitted with a gib. A crane is a type of machine, generally equipped with a hoist rope, wire ropes or chains, and sheaves, that can be used both to lift and lower materials and to move them horizontally. It is mainly used for lifting heavy things and transporting them to other places.
The Optimist's Daughter is a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winning 1972 short novel by Eudora Welty.
LÃ©on: The Professional (1994) Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl, is reluctantly taken in by LÃ©on, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. LÃ©on and Mathilda form an unusual relationship, as she becomes his protÃ©gÃ©e and learns the assassin's trade.