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.
Here is the brief history, in words and pictures, of our weird spelling system and the people who made it. Sean OâNeill is an illustrator and cartoonist living in Chicago. Creator of the graphic novel Rocket Robinson and the Pharaohâs Fortune, he really can draw that fast. Seriously.