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No, he didn't.

Lee — 9/6/2008 3:36:32 PM (archived)

He did some survey work, but he did not design the street layout. That was done by L'Enfant who was the chief planner. The layout of the streets in D.C. show the influence of his Masonic beliefs. Banneker was a bit player in the building of D.C. Surveyors are to civil engineering what drafters are to mechanical or architectural engineering.

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Demographic changes in America may doom the Republican Party - z - 9/5/2008 4:02:19 AM
- agreed - Jack Herer - 9/5/2008 3:29:32 PM
- Probably spells doom for far more than the Republican Party. - Lee - 9/5/2008 11:36:07 AM
  - Cultural greatness isn't color- or language-dependent. - Mary Anne - 9/5/2008 4:45:38 PM
    - The Death of Diversity. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/5/2008 5:20:28 PM
      - Don't get him wrong... - ER - 9/5/2008 5:37:51 PM
        
        The Holocaust was all about diversity... - Mary Anne - 9/5/2008 8:41:13 PM
        
        The obligatory Nazi reference. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/6/2008 12:47:42 AM
        
        The obvious Western culture reference. - Mary Anne - 9/6/2008 1:02:52 AM
        
        Truth is subjective and... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/5/2008 5:57:31 PM
        
        You seem to confuse the criminals with the victims. - alcaray - 9/6/2008 12:10:21 AM
        
        See? This is what it has become. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/6/2008 12:36:37 AM
        
        You described them as victims yourself. - alcaray - 9/6/2008 1:33:50 AM
        
        Bait and switch. - Mary Anne - 9/6/2008 1:08:17 AM
        
        Facetiousness. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/6/2008 1:22:41 AM
        
        I would be in favor of such a law. - Mary Anne - 9/6/2008 1:40:12 AM
  - America will be just fine! But you Republicans won't be! - z - 9/5/2008 4:04:34 PM
    - So tell me. - Lee - 9/6/2008 1:54:34 AM
      - I don't want to live in an officially Black, White, Hispanic or Asian country - z - 9/6/2008 3:15:36 AM
        
        Mexico is. - Lee - 9/6/2008 4:53:01 AM
      - We ceased to be a "white country" when John Smith met Powhatan. - Mary Anne - 9/6/2008 2:03:44 AM
        
        So tell me again. - Lee - 9/6/2008 2:28:10 AM
        
        Wrong. - Mary Anne - 9/6/2008 2:52:57 AM
        
        And BTW - Lee - 9/6/2008 4:42:48 AM
        
        So what you're saying... - Lee - 9/6/2008 4:29:10 AM
        
        What I'm saying is that this country was never the lily-white place of white supremicist legend. - Mary Anne - 9/6/2008 11:56:54 AM
        
        No, he didn't. - Lee - 9/6/2008 3:36:32 PM
- re: Demographic changes in America may doom the Republican Party - Marcia - 9/5/2008 4:33:31 AM
  - re: Demographic changes in America may doom the Republican Party - Marcia - 9/5/2008 4:37:34 AM
- If you move to Mexico now you can... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/5/2008 4:17:04 AM
  - This one's for you, homey! - z - 9/5/2008 5:20:26 AM
    - Poverty. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/5/2008 4:35:00 PM
      - Come with me to Appalachia, pal. - Mary Anne - 9/5/2008 4:53:54 PM
        
        Poverty of mind is everywhere. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/5/2008 5:34:19 PM
        
        The thing about poverty of mind... - Mary Anne - 9/5/2008 9:06:43 PM
        
        My own experiences. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/5/2008 10:17:41 PM
        
        Back in the good old days, when there was no illegal immigration? - alcaray - 9/5/2008 10:58:36 PM
        
        Yes, that was the point precisely. (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/6/2008 12:56:59 AM
        
        Time for a dye-job. Your reactionary roots are showing. (n/t) - alcaray - 9/6/2008 1:36:20 AM
        
        If Lee lend's me his powdered white wig, I'll go cover up. ;-) (n/t) - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/6/2008 3:02:05 AM
        
        Worried about cheaters? - Mary Anne - 9/5/2008 10:32:17 PM
        
        re: Who are the cheaters? - SteveS - 9/6/2008 2:35:29 PM
        
        Pointless? - Mary Anne - 9/7/2008 3:43:25 PM
        
        re: Pointless? - SteveS - 9/8/2008 12:03:26 AM
        
        Who said anything about arresting employers? - Mary Anne - 9/8/2008 12:20:17 AM
        
        re: So goes the problem - SteveS - 9/8/2008 3:44:55 AM
        
        Again: who said anything about violent criminals? - Mary Anne - 9/9/2008 1:26:19 AM
        
        re: Worried about cheaters? - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/6/2008 1:08:15 AM
        
        Apples and oranges - Mary Anne - 9/6/2008 1:17:54 AM
        
        Are you sure? - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/6/2008 1:31:05 AM
        
        They'd have to know how to read. - Mary Anne - 9/6/2008 1:41:20 AM
        
        Agreed with everything you said, but... - alcaray - 9/5/2008 5:10:22 PM
    - Why are the subtitles in Spanish? - ER - 9/5/2008 12:22:29 PM
      - There's another version with English subtitles - I'll post it tonight - z - 9/5/2008 1:27:48 PM
        
        It still doesn't explain those Spanish subtitles - ER - 9/5/2008 1:37:13 PM
        
        with English subtitles... - z - 9/6/2008 2:50:53 AM

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