The son of long-time Republican senator John Chafee, Lincoln Chafee worked as a blacksmith at harness-racing tracks and served as mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island, before he was appointed to the US Senate in 1999, after his father's death.
Power plays Andrea Orsini, the son of a blacksmith who masquerades as a nobleman and soldier of fortune as well as being a pretty decent artist (well, this is the Renaissance).
Its neighbours, in the rose-covered outhouses, are an architect and a blacksmith.
"I was starting to feel like a blacksmith," he says, recalling the large-format camera kit he would unpack in order to capture his waning industrial subjects.
THE son of a blacksmith, he became the leading scientist of his day, and is remembered as one of the greatest experimentalists in the history of science.
A sign at his Wheely Down workshops, just across the back road to Winchester, proclaims him an "artist blacksmith".
My regulars include a ferry captain, an engineer, a blacksmith and a banker".Stalking deer, meanwhile, is growing more popular south of the border.
Wisely, he doesn't publicise his private clients' outlays, but if your neighbour across the street is a house by Gaudi probably you don't stint.When we first met, your correspondent, whose knowledge of ironwork could be forged into the head of a pin, ingenuously asked whether an artist blacksmith such as Mr Normandale could make a decent living.
The people seemed once again to want change, but change of a different kind: economic "justice" and redistribution rather than a political and cultural opening.Mr Ahmadinejad, the austere son of a blacksmith, ran as an economic populist, adroitly harnessing the conviction of the mostazafin Iran's "downtrodden"—that their basic needs had been neglected by the political reformers.
They recently released the first stage of a free web app, Forecast.io, which offers forecasts for other parts of the world.None of the three has meteorological training, which, as Mr Grossman (a physicist, as well as trained blacksmith) points out, need not be a bad thing.
The clanking invention was mocked mercilessly by generations of caricaturists, and it does seem a little odd, even today, that it should have taken another half-century before the idea of pedals was hit upon.The breakthrough came in 1867, when a French blacksmith named Michaux added not just pedals, but brakes.
