Colorado Capitol Tour

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Ordinarily I despise guided tours, but I was dressed like a tourist, so I decided to "play tourist." It was a good choice; the tour guide was excellent, and I enjoyed watching the reactions of the group of schoolchildren that was also on the tour. Me in ridiculous tourist garb

close-up of rose onyx The builders of the Capitol used Colorado rose onyx marble. The entire world's supply was used for the buildling.

When originally built, one of the steps was surveyed to be exactly one mile above sea level, and was engraved with that fact:

Geodetic plug However, in 1969, the measurement was done again, and a geodetic plug embedded three steps higher up:

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Ordinarily I despise guided tours, but I was dressed like a tourist, so I decided to "play tourist." It was a good choice; the tour guide was excellent, and I enjoyed watching the reactions of the group of schoolchildren that was also on the tour.
	The builders of the Capitol used Colorado rose onyx marble. The entire world's supply was used for the buildling.
When originally built, one of the steps was surveyed to be exactly one mile above sea level, and was engraved with that fact:
	However, in 1969, the measurement was done again, and a geodetic plug embedded three steps higher up: