Scotland Took Long Road To Independence Vote

By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press: World
Tue, 09/16/2014 - 1:00am

EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- On Calton Hill, overlooking Edinburgh, stands Scotland's National Monument. A colonnade of classical stone pillars modeled on the Parthenon in Athens, it's grand, inspiring - and unfinished, ever since the money to build it ran out two centuries ago....

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