• Look up crane or cranes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Crane or cranes may refer to: Crane (bird), a large, long-necked bird Crane (machine), industrial...
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    fit the above definition of a crane, but are generally known as cranes, such as stacker cranes and loader cranes. Cranes were so called from the resemblance...
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    the face, but the crowned cranes of the genus Balearica have vibrantly-coloured wings and golden "crowns" of feathers. Cranes fly with their necks extended...
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    recognize other whooping cranes as their conspecifics, and unsuccessfully tried to pair with sandhill cranes, instead. Florida sandhill crane, Ocala National Forest...
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    wild (and two captive) cranes remaining by 1941, conservation efforts would lead to a partial recovery. The total number of cranes in the surviving migratory...
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    thousand origami cranes (千羽鶴, senbazuru, lit. 'one thousand cranes') are made, one for each year. In some stories, it is believed that the cranes must be completed...
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    keeps cranes. Some literati even reared cranes and trained them to dance to guqin music. The Ming and Qing dynasties endowed the red crowned crane with...
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    common crane (Grus grus), also known as the Eurasian crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes. A medium-sized species, it is the only crane commonly...
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    involving cranes, and in Chinese mythology cranes are generally symbolically connected with the idea of longevity.: 86–87  In China, the crane mythology...
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    Orizuru (redirect from Paper cranes)
    called senbazuru (千羽鶴), meaning "thousand cranes", and it is said that if someone folds a thousand cranes, they are granted one wish. The significance...
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  • Manitowoc Cranes is a division of The Manitowoc Company, Inc. Manitowoc Cranes produces five brands of cranes: Grove, National Crane, Shuttlelift, Manitowoc...
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    Siberian crane (Leucogeranus leucogeranus), also known as the Siberian white crane or the snow crane, is a bird of the family Gruidae, the cranes. They are...
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    the cranes, which has been lost in the other subfamily. Crowned cranes also lack a coiled trachea and have loose plumage compared to the other cranes. The...
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    called a gantry crane (USA, ASME B30 series) or a goliath crane (UK, BS 466). Unlike mobile or construction cranes, overhead cranes are typically used...
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    Alison and Jim Shaw and named after the many mechanical cranes around the city's docks, Cranes are best known for the singular childlike vocals of lead...
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    Eucalyptus-dominated woodlands and grasslands in Australia. The sarus crane is easily distinguished from other cranes in the region by its overall grey colour and the contrasting...
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    Cranes are tall wading birds in the family Gruidae. Cranes are found on every continent except for South America and Antarctica and inhabit a variety of...
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    world, to small shop cranes, used for tasks such as lifting automobile engines out of vehicles. They are also called portal cranes, the "portal" being...
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    (such as Siberian or whooping cranes) are found over a considerable range in their migratory movements. The blue crane is migratory, primarily altitudinal...
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  • 19 March 2014."The crane family (Gruidae) is divided into two subfamilies, the Crowned Cranes (Balearicinae) and the Typical Cranes (Gruinae)." "IOC World...
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  • the rest of the cranes, which were buried with Sadako. The claim in Coerr's book that Sadako "died before completing the 1000 cranes, and her two friends...
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  • Palme d'Or The Cranes Are Flying at IMDb The Cranes Are Flying at Rotten Tomatoes The Cranes Are Flying at the TCM Movie Database The Cranes Are Flying an...
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    Robert Edward Crane (July 13, 1928 – June 29, 1978) was an American actor, drummer, radio personality and disc jockey known for starring in the CBS sitcom...
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    the common crane. Like other cranes it has a dancing display, more balletic than the common crane, with less leaping. The demoiselle crane breeds in central...
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    An aerial crane or flying crane is a helicopter used to lift heavy or awkward loads. As aerial cranes, helicopters carry loads connected to long cables...
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    cranes to merge with other young flocks that have not yet reached the first breeding age of 3–5 years. In the breeding season, Black crowned cranes are...
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    she constructed one thousand paper cranes, hoping (in vain) that this might save her life. The memory of paper cranes folded by this girl—a girl who to...
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    to 1040. In April 2018, a new population of Wattled Cranes was discovered in Angola. Wattled cranes inhabit fairly inaccessible wetlands under most conditions...
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    Railroad cranes are usually designed specifically for one of three purposes: Usually the smallest of the railroad cranes, goods yard cranes were used...
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    also show cranes mounted on the outside of walls with the stand of the machine secured to putlogs. In contrast to modern cranes, medieval cranes and hoists...
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