This staircase took 13 years to build and employed over 600 stone carvers. Each masoner got to carve their favorite historical figure so there are many surprises throughout the entire staircase. You can read more here.
The whole experience felt haunting and humbling at the same time.
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. ~Winston Churchill
People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them. ~James Baldwin
"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them." ~Joseph Joubert
"History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small." ~Mark Yost
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