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..
That is true - you cannot tile over plaster, if that's your plan. You would have to remove the plaster and replace it not with drywall - run from a contractor who says that! - but with cement board. The problem otherwise is that grout is porous and any slight crack will cause moisture - and mold - on any other surface.