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prominently in several novels and short stories. This was due to the autobiographical nature of much of Fante's writing; his father, Nick, an Italian-born bricklayer descended from — at least in Fante's fictions — a long line of Italian artisan bricklayers and stonemasons. Fante also spent a
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Professional bricklayers usually go through a formal apprenticeship which includes about three to four years of on-the-job training combined with classroom instruction, though some bricklayers may learn entirely from on-the-job experience. Unions and employers may offer
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Bricklayers occasionally enter competitions where both speed and accuracy are judged. The largest is the "Spec-Mix Bricklayer 500" held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
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is one who lays any combination of stones, cinder blocks, and bricks in construction of building walls and other works. Bricklaying is a part of masonry.
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Illustration of how the bricklayer, on clearing the footings of a wall, builds up six or eight courses of bricks at the external angles
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and written by Hanna Weg and Matt Johnson, based on the 2010 novel of the same name by Paul Lindsay, who used the
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for "bricklayer"), who would 'build' words with bricks to demonstrate the use of
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featured "Bill the Brickie" ("brickie" being a British and Australian
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Craftsperson and tradesperson who lays bricks to construct brickwork
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significant portion of his youth apprenticed to his father.
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Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering
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Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors
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Index

Bricklayer (photograph)

Kuben Vocational Arena
Craftsperson
Construction
Apprenticeship
Civil engineering

craftsperson
tradesperson
bricks
brickwork
blocks
masonry
British
Australian English
stone mason
hobby
Winston Churchill
apprenticeships
thermal insulation
John Fante
hod carriers
stonemasons
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Gulag
Look and Read
colloquialism
morphemes

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