A: Alexander Graham Bell lived much of his life in the town of  Brantford, Ontario. The educator and primary inventor of the telephone settled there with his family in 1870.
Control joints can be bridged and moved to a grout joint, although it's better to try and lay the tile out to the joint if possible. It's expansion joints that must be honored thru the tile. __________________. Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right..
If it is too dry, you cannot work it into the grout joints. When the grout is the proper consistency, trowel a goodly size amount onto the tile surface and work it into the joints with the squeegee / float. Use even pressure and steady strokes to be sure you fill the joints completely. Squeegee off excess.. Some tilers prefer to put their thinset mortar on the surface they are tiling and place the tiles into the mortar. They do this by spreading the thinset over a small area of the project and placing the tiles onto the mortar.