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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Blacksmith"”.
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Saul Januarie: Biography of a wagon-maker and blacksmith from Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa
… remainder of his life. He became well-known as a blacksmith from Worcester from the 1930's omwards. His skills were sought after in the town as well as on the farms in the surrounding area. Januarie was also renowned as a leader of the Independent Order of True Templars (IOTT). This study was an …
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Technological Adaptation on the Frontier: An Examination of Blacksmithing at Fort Michilimackinac, 1715-1781
<p>This research examines the blacksmith and his work within the 18th century fur trade community at Fort Michilimackinac (1715-1781). Located at the northern tip of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, this fortified trading post was important to the French (1715-1760) and British (1761-1781) fur …
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Weldings (Original writing)
… in rural Minnesota. The story centers around blacksmith Ernest Johnson and his relationships with dead wife Gretchen and living middle aged daughter Jenna. Ernest must decide whether or not he should break from his past farm life with Gretchen and move into a town apartment. Other characters …
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THE TRADE MANUFACTURE AND DESIGN OF ENGLISH BLACKSMITHING IN THE POST WAR PERIOD
Blacksmithing has undergone a dramatic transformation in the last twenty five years. This study examines the changes and the context within which they have taken place. The effects upon the products of the blacksmith are considered through empirical research and practical work. The working methods …
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Black and White on Black: Whiteness and Masculinity in the Works of Three Australian Writers - Thomas Keneally, Colin Thiele, and Patrick White.
… Thomas Keneally's <em>The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith</em> (1972) depicts a half-caste Aborigine's attempt to enter white society in a racially-antipathetic world that precipitates his ruin. Children's author Colin Thiele develops friendships between white and Aboriginal children in …
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Crafting Iron and Other Stories
… in a local Renaissance festival with an artisan blacksmith. A college girl helps a socially awkward, intellectually brilliant roommate and learns the instinct for and gratitude of loyalty, and a woman from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, questions her sense of belonging and her childhood troubles …
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The Early Medieval Cutting Edge of Technology: An archaeometallurgical, technological and social study of the manufacture and use of Anglo-Saxon and Viking iron knives, and their contribution to the early medieval iron economy.
… knife. This study also suggests that Irish blacksmiths in Dublin continued their ¿native¿ blacksmithing techniques after the Vikings arrived. Using the data gathered a chaîne opértoire of the iron knife was re-constructed, this revealed that there was a specific order to the manufacture …
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Thorough;
… capacity to create. The nails he bought from a blacksmith. The boards were recycled from an old shanty. The land itself and the trees on it were loaned to him by his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson. Tools, natural resources, supply chains, help, etc. had to be bought, loaned, or scavenged in order …
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Traditional Intellectual Property Protection in Tanzania: The Case of Traditional Medicinal Knowledge
… forms, be it traditional medicinal knowledge, blacksmith and traditional songs and dances. Different societies have always adopted different ways of protecting traditional intellectual property. In the area of traditional medicine informal IP regimes are used and the most popular one in …