In a message dated 9/16/99 4:49:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> How did they get 'em to line up?

Micromanagement as an architectural dalliance did not exist then, designers
knew enough to realize bricklayers had invented Flemish bond to begin with,
lack of CAD programs made drawing bricks more difficult (implication that no
more intellectual expenditure is required than previously), architects knew
enough math (without electronic foot/inch or metric calculator) to figure out
where the wall should end to keep a good bond pattern, communication lines on
a project were shorter, architects sometimes touched bricks as in, "I lifted
every brick on the wall."

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