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.
According to the mogul of entertaining, her daughter Alexis' toddlers, Jude, 3, and Truman, 2, are already quite the linguists. Martha Stewart's Daughter Alexis Writes Home Life Was Hell The little girl is a genius speaking Spanish and English [and] she's going into Mandarin now, Stewart told People magazine. And the little boy is very good in Spanish -- very fluent!