Scotland Votes on Independence (PHOTOS)
On Thursday, the people of Scotland cast their ballots on the historic Scottish referendum vote to either break away from or remain part of the United Kingdom.
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A pro-independence campaigner dressed in a tartan kilt, left, holds a "yes" placard as voters arrive at a polling station to cast their Scottish independence referendum votes in Forfar, near Dundee, Scotland. Scottish voters in Scotland decided not to seek independence from the U.K. in a ballot that would have spelled the end of a three-century-old union that once dominated the world from America to Australia.
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Voters enter a polling station in Pitlochry, Scotland.
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Former Gordon Highlander, Jock Robertson, aged 81, said "I have waited all my life for this vote" after voting in the Scottish referendum in Peebles, Scotland.
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Campaigners for both pro and anti-independence stand outside a polling station in Edinburgh.
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Former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown visits a polling station at North Queensferry's community center in Scotland.
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People wait to cast their votes inside a polling station in Edinburgh.
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In London, front pages of the English editions of Britain's national newspapers are all things Scotish referendum at the moment. Britain's newspapers declared Thursday a "day of destiny" in dramatic front pages streaked with blue, white and red.
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Elsewhere in the world a man holds a placard during a rally in support of Scotland's independence referendum, in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine.
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Bagpiper Anton Doherty plays for passers-by in front of the Houses of Parliament on Westminster Bridge in London in honor of the referendum on Scottish independence.
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A count observer with Union flag finger nails looks on as ballot papers are counted in the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre in Aberdeen, immediately after the polls closed.
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A supporter at a "Yes" rally in George Square is arrested by police after climbing a monument on September 19, 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Votes are counted in the Royal Highland Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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People wait for the result outside the Scottish Parliament after voting for the Scottish independence referendum closes in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Pro-union supporters react as Scottish independence referendum results come in at a Better Together event in Glasgow.
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