Capitólio, passagem secreta
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00:00So this is one of the neat things about the U.S. Capitol, of course. This building, you know, construction started in the 1700s, and there are all sorts of little hidden passageways. You saw I just pulled this cover up, and you can see if we get the camera to come over, don't fall in, we don't need a worker's cop claim today, but you can see there's a passageway, these are long stairs that used to be, that used to be here, that will close
00:30off. We're just off of what's called Statuary Hall, which at one time was the actual house chamber, and it's outside there, but this is just an example of some of the little hidden secrets in the Capitol, and so one of the things when we bring tour groups in, if it's a small enough group, it's a big group again, but if it's a small group, we'll actually take them down this hall. Believe it or not, my big self have actually gotten down, and more importantly, out of this hall.
00:55I'm not going to debut that again for today, but suffice to say, I've been able to live and tell about it and get out of there, but it goes all the way down. It's an old staircase, and I'm told, I can't verify this, I'm told that this staircase, which opens to, if you go down and formally open to the outside, was one of the staircases that British soldiers used when they breached the Capitol during the War of 1814, I think it was 1814 when they actually attacked Washington.
01:19When they came in, it was one of the stairs that British soldiers actually came up, so a lot of just amazing history in this building, and so when folks come from North Carolina, we try to show things that if it's a small enough group, things are time-right, you can actually let folks go down there. The kids seem to love it. A lot older folks, not so much, but it's just one of the neat things about the Capitol as well as the other day-to-day things that folks see all the time. Thought I might share that with you.
01:44Yeah.