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.
[Êi.Êi]) is a 1944 novella by French writer Colette. The plot focuses on a young Parisian girl being groomed for a career as a courtesan and her relationship with the wealthy cultured man named Gaston who falls in love with her and eventually marries her.