Crane Company Building (Chicago)
The Crane Company Building is a skyscraper located at 836 S. Michigan Ave. in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.
The twelve- story building was designed by Holabird& Roche and built in 1912.
The steel frame skyscraper was designed in the Classical Revival style, and its exterior design is split into three sections.
The first and second floors are faced in limestone and feature piers supporting a cornice; the third floor is also covered in limestone.
The fourth through eleventh floors are constructed in red brick; windows on these floors feature terra cotta keystones and sills, and the eleventh floor is capped by a terra cotta cornice.
The twelfth floor is decorated in terra cotta panels which incorporate Crane Company valves in their design; this floor is also topped by a cornice.
The building originally housed offices for the Crane Company, which manufactured plumbing and heating equipment.
The Crane Company played a significant role in both the Chicago economy, where it was a major employer of industrial workers, and the national manufacturing landscape, where it was considered" the United States' leading manufacturer" of iron and brass plumbing and heating fixtures.
Due to the demolition of the Crane Company's factories and its early leaders' homes, the Crane Company Building is now the most significant landmark in Chicago associated with the company.
After the Crane Company left the building in 1960, it was converted to a residential property.
The Crane Company Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 28, 2002.
Insulating link
An insulating link is a device used on the hook of a crane to protect the crane operatives from the danger of electrocution should the crane come into contact with a power line.
Insulating links are essentially robust insulators and prevent the flow of electricity from bare, suspended wires through cranes and into personnel working near the crane.
Variants of insulating links are also made for specific use in antenna guy wires, and foundry and munitions applications.
Dezerter
Dezerter, founded as SS-20 in May 1981 in Warsaw, is one of the most popular punk bands from Poland.
The band was founded by three students of Warsaw's vocational high school (technikum) - Robert "Robal" Matera (guitar), Krzysztof Grabowski (drums), and Dariusz "Stepa" Stepnowski (bass).
All three were born in 1963, and went to the same class.
From the beginning Grabowski wrote lyrics, and Matera music.
The three classmates originally planned to name their band Sektor A, but after some time changed their minds and named it SS-20.
Soon afterwards, they were joined by another student of the same school, Dariusz "Skandal" Hajn (voc., born 1965), who, as Grabowski later stated, "looked like a real punkrocker".
The band started regular rehearsals in the summer of 1981.
With fast guitar riffs and intelligent lyrics written by Grabowski, Dezerter's concerts drew thousands of fans and its LPs were very popular, especially in the late '80s and early '90s.
The most famous Dezerter's live appearance took place during the 1984 Jarocin Festival in Jarocin, Poland and it was attended by some 20,000 people.
The concert was recorded and later parts of it were released (together with four songs from the 7″ EP recorded in 1983) on the LP "Underground Out of Poland".
The LP was produced by Joey Shithead, vocalist of a Canadian band D.O.A..
Dezerter however is not widely known in other countries, perhaps because the band refrains from singing in the English language.
Nevertheless, it played in several European countries, as well as Japan and the U.S. (in New York City and Chicago, early November 2009, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall).
In 2010, Grabowski's memoirs "Dezerter, poroniona generacja?Dezerter, aborted generation?") were published in Warsaw.
The Crane Wives
The Crane Wives is a four- piece Americana/ folk band founded in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States in 2010.
They refer to themselves as a" home grown indie- folk outfit from Grand Rapids, Michigan that defies musical stereotypes."
They utilize three- part vocal harmonies, eclectic instrumentation, and a passion for songcraft to create organic music that is both accessible and innovative.
Crane Creek (Mohawk River)
The Crane Creek flows into the Mohawk River in Oriskany, New York.
The Crane Wife
The Crane Wife is the fourth album by The Decemberists, released in 2006.
It was produced by Tucker Martine and Chris Walla, and is the band's first album on the Capitol Records label.
The album was inspired by a Japanese folk tale, and centers on two song cycles, "The Crane Wife" and "The Island", the latter inspired by William Shakespeare's "The Tempest".
National Public Radio listeners voted "The Crane Wife" the best album of 2006.
The album cover was designed by the Portland artist Carson Ellis, Colin Meloy's wife, who has created artwork for each of the band's albums.
The Wolf and the Crane
The Wolf and the Crane is a fable attributed to Aesop that has several eastern analogues.
Similar stories have a lion instead of a wolf, and a stork, heron or partridge takes the place of the crane.
River Crane, London
The River Crane, a tributary of the River Thames, is a river running through west London, England.
It is 8.5 miles( 13.6 km) long and flows entirely within Greater London.
The Crane flows through three London boroughs: Hillingdon, Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames.
Although the drainage basin is heavily urbanised, the Crane Valley is one of the few river corridors within London that provides a continuous belt of semi-natural habitat.
However, in common with many urban rivers, the Crane's natural morphology has been significantly altered over the years by river engineering works such as widening, straightening and bank reinforcement.
The Perfect Crime No. 2
"The Perfect Crime #2" is a song on the American indie rock band The Decemberists' fourth album, "The Crane Wife".
The song is a sequel to "The Perfect Crime #1", a song which did not appear on "The Crane Wife" and was later released as a bonus track.
"The Perfect Crime #2" was released as a single in September 2007, the second single released from "The Crane Wife" (following "O Valencia!").
This was the first time The Decemberists have released more than one single from an album.
List of Tipula species
List of members of the crane fly genus" Tipula"

Question: Are both Dezerter and The Crane Wives from the same country?
Answer: no