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  • Thumbnail for Crane (machine)
    columns was practically abandoned in favour of using several column drums. Although the exact circumstances of the shift from the ramp to the crane technology...
    83 KB (10,813 words) - 04:03, 29 October 2024
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    attached to opposite steel columns by means of brackets. The traveling bridge spans the gap. A hoist, the lifting component of a crane, travels along the bridge...
    13 KB (1,448 words) - 06:01, 7 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Trajan's Column
    Trajan's Column (Italian: Colonna Traiana, Latin: Columna Traiani) is a Roman triumphal column in Rome, Italy, that commemorates Roman emperor Trajan's...
    36 KB (4,134 words) - 15:48, 25 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sandhill crane
    playing this file? See media help. The sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia...
    42 KB (4,627 words) - 07:57, 2 October 2024
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    A crane vessel, crane ship, crane barge, or floating crane is a ship with a crane specialized in lifting heavy loads, typically exceeding 1,500 t (1,476...
    53 KB (3,802 words) - 18:41, 6 November 2024
  • television sitcom Frasier (1993–2004) and the 2023 revival Frasier is Frasier Crane. Other regular characters include: his father Martin, his brother Niles...
    110 KB (11,897 words) - 17:21, 3 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Water crane
    crane is a device used for delivering a large volume of water into the tank or tender of a steam locomotive. The device is also called a water column...
    5 KB (509 words) - 05:14, 26 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for Joseph Stephen Crane
    the marriage and Crane received a finalized divorce from Kurtz as the marriage mix-up became sensationalized in the gossip columns. After discovering...
    13 KB (1,524 words) - 05:24, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alexander Column
    underwent further working. Without the aid of modern cranes and engineering machines, the column, weighing 600 tonnes (661 tons) on 30 August 1832 was...
    7 KB (760 words) - 02:08, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Advice column
    An advice column is a column in a question and answer format. Typically, a (usually anonymous) reader writes to the media outlet with a problem in the...
    18 KB (2,242 words) - 16:24, 16 October 2024
  • Edward Harrison Crane (born August 15, 1944) is an American libertarian and co-founder of the Cato Institute. He served as its president until October...
    9 KB (769 words) - 03:23, 7 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Treadwheel crane
    A treadwheel crane (Latin: magna rota) is a wooden, human powered hoisting and lowering device. It was primarily used during the Roman period and the...
    17 KB (2,030 words) - 08:12, 27 October 2024
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    usage by the railway companies, where they powered railway turntables, cranes, hoists, etc., revolving stages at the London Palladium and Coliseum Theatre...
    7 KB (938 words) - 17:38, 30 October 2024
  • Nicola Vincenzo "Nicky" Crane (21 May 1958 – 7 December 1993) was an English neo-Nazi activist. He came out as gay before dying from an AIDS-related illness...
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    « Daily Bulletin". bulletin.accurateshooter.com. Retrieved 5 June 2017. Crane, David (December 3, 2010). "DR Exclusive!: SureFire MAG5-60 and MAG5-100...
    59 KB (7,216 words) - 13:07, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Semi-submersible platform
    sister crane vessels called Balder and Hermod. These semi-submersible crane vessels (SSCV) consist of two lower hulls (pontoons), three columns on each...
    13 KB (1,370 words) - 14:38, 5 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Crane House and Historic YWCA
    including columns in the front; a flat, rectangular roof; and door jambs. James died in 1882. A 1900 census shows that Phebe Crane, James Crane's wife, had...
    11 KB (1,233 words) - 03:54, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frank Crane (clergyman and writer)
    syndicated newspaper columns and books of reflections and advice. He was born on May 12, 1861 in Urbana, Illinois. His father, James Lyons Crane, was a Methodist...
    2 KB (174 words) - 18:36, 25 April 2024
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    SSCV Sleipnir (category Crane vessels)
    SSCVs use larger columns under the cranes to provide support, which can lead to severe pitching in rough seas; SSCV Sleipnir uses columns that are symmetrical...
    24 KB (2,425 words) - 09:45, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yoke (aeronautics)
    A yoke, alternatively known as a control wheel or a control column, is a device used for piloting some fixed-wing aircraft. The pilot uses the yoke to...
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