1.What was the name for a stone worker on a castle ?
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1.  A Stone Mason, a master mason was the engineer, and supervisor in a major construction project that would last for years. See the novel by Ken Follett, "The Pillars of the Earth"\n2. Read the book\n3. The Keep
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I made one in handvaardigheids class (that's what we call the classes where you have to make stuff from clay and papier mache and the likes of it. Don't know the english word)\nI made it of clay. It was about 10 inches tall and it carried a huge great big axe (actually the axe was the largest part of the statuette) and a bucket-o-blood in the other hand.\nUnfortunatley something went wrong when it got fired in the kiln (there were airbubbles in it or something like that) and it broke.\nAnd if that wasn't the worst part of it: I actually got a D because it broke! As if it is MY fault that there is a stupid air bubble in the clay!
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Castles? Well acutally this kind of structure dates back to the Dark Ages in Europe, if by that you mean a moat, drawbridge. portculis. turreted walls, and a central keep and dungeon.  I don't know if maybe even if the Romans and other societies in Europe had them too, but there are indications that some kind of fortifications were in use in Indo European times as far back as 10,000 BC.\n\nI think any static, non nomadic culture any where might have created a place to gather and defend them selves against raids and predations from other tribes. -
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http://www.stonecareuk.net/propertiesofstone.html\n\nHope this site is of help to you
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Jack Osbourne, a steelworker.\n\nI'll bet you were lookingfor the answer "The Devil", right?
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Araunah the Jebusite.\n\nAn alter. Many people believe this site to have been the future site of the Temple.
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The majority of Egypitans were involved with either agriculture or craftsman type work (i.e. potters, metalworkers, tentmakers, etc.).  Since agriculture in Egypt is highly seasonal and based on the flooding of the Nile, it has come to be accepted that the agricultural workforce was transferred to monument building during the non-harvest season.
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The reason you haven't gotten an answer yet for this question is that there is no translation.  \n\nHow many "tile walkers" do you think there were before the 1900's? LOL  There were no drain pipes or "inspectors" I wouldn't think.\n\nBimose - S/he is walking\nOgimaa - Chief or Boss
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http://www.castles-of-britain.com/castlesx.htm\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook2.html
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A free mason is a member of a "secret" society known as the free masons. A Mason is somebody who works with stone.
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I believe it might have been Gustave Eiffel.  He's most famous for the Eiffel Tower, but he used steel frames in buildings before that.  It's interesting that he sometimes put the steel frame on the outside of the structure, rather than the inside.  A good example of this is the Nestlé chocolate factory in Noisiel, France
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Around 80 hours without sleep. Don't remind me..it was NOT pleasant.\n\nI never knew stone monuments could look like people shaking...
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Wow, I really wondered about it too, so a couple of years ago, I did some research on it, and I came up with three answers that were repeated over and over. I guess to know for sure which one is right, or if any of them are right, you would have to know the person who is placing the stone, and ask them. Below are the three things I found out:\n\n1. In Judaism, placing stones was traditionally a way to help keep the spirit of the dead in the grave. This appears to have been an Eastern European superstition that spread to the Jewish people who lived in that area of the world. It was thought that the spirits of even very good people stuck around to see their bodies buried, and might stay near the grave for a day or two. The stone was a symbolic lid, meant to keep the spirit in, and evil out, so that the spirit was not taken over by an evil force. The great majority of Jewish people in the US are of Eastern European origin, having emigrated here either before or after WWII,  so that tradition is very strong in American Jewish culture. \n\n2. The stone sometimes symbolizes a cairn. Cairns are little, man-made piles of rocks used to mark the site where someone is buried. Cairns were traditional in Scotland and parts of Northern England. Placing one rock represents a cairn, or someone might build a small cairn as a memorial to the dead, such as on the side of the road where a person had been killed in an accident. Cairns were also used to mark a place that had significance, such as a path or a historical site. If I remember correctly, some other cultures marked burial sites with piles of stones, but I am afraid I only remember the Scottish and English for sure, as that is where the word "cairn" comes from.\n\n3. In most cultures, it is considered respectful to bring something to the grave of a deceased person to bear witness to the fact that you were there and that you acknowledge their death and still remember them. For example, in the US, the most common thing that people bring to graves is flowers, even if the person buried there has been gone for a long time. However, any object will do. Sometimes, that object happens to be a stone. The object itself is not considered as important as the act of actually placing it.\n\nIt took me a long time to find out the little bit I told you about above. I see it all the time, but it was hard to find any concrete reasons why people carry on this tradition. I hope my information answers at least part of your question.
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mechanics, carpenter, mason, boatman\n\nhttp://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15752
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Just then I was teleported to a medieval construction site.  Before I had time to exclaim, "What the...", I was ordered to get the wattle and daub from the slag heap behind the lean-to, before it hardened.\n\nSeemed I was stuck there, as I knew castles to take generations to build.  Damn my luck.
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That sounds like the story I heard about the origin of that phrase.  Also, they hired people to stay up all night and stand by with shovels in case the bell rang. That is the origin of the term "graveyard shift" for people who work nights.
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I've read that the stones were sung into place by magical dwarves.\nReally, it's no more absurd than some of the other theories out there.