The landmark, named for a Swedish Mormon who arrived in 1860, is a reminder of their ancestors' religion.
The Andrew Freedman, a faded landmark named after the philanthropist who commissioned it, was reinvented in December as an upscale 10-room hotel charging between $130 and $250 for a night's stay in the heart of a borough that is better known for crippling poverty and crime than tourism.
Milwaukee has a bridge named after Daniel Hoan and a municipal building named for Frank Zeidler, but Milwaukeeans will look in vain for a landmark named for Victor Berger, who was the genius behind the Socialists' initial triumphs.
The motorcade came under fire as it made its way along Turkmenbashi Avenue, one of the numerous landmarks named after Mr. Niyazov, who calls himself Akbar Turkmenbashi, the Great Leader of All Turkmen.
But, from what I can see, after a childhood of streets, schools, and public landmarks named for Confederate heroes, and a present in which white-nationalist rallies still occur, those memorials had imparted few lessons.
Of all the more than 3,000 landmarks named for President Ronald Reagan — from scores of schools and highways to an aircraft carrier and a mountain — nothing comes close to this: designating 3.4 million square nautical miles of ocean as the biggest, wettest and most ambitious Reagan memorial yet imagined.
Boston, which had landmarks named after the Hutchinson family, took pains upon his departure to rename them.
Kennedy's body traveled a 70 mile journey from the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, past numerous landmarks named after his family, to the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, where it lay in repose and where over 50,000 members of the public filed by to pay their respects.
Users can search by neighborhood, address or landmark name, or, with the paid version of the app, use GPS to track the closest landmark.
Next, the map, which still lacks street or landmark names, is physically printed out and posted to volunteers who are located in the city.
Other behavioral experiments seem to show that country names are closer to common nouns than to other proper names such as people and landmark names in that the connectivity between the word and the conceptual system is likely to require diffuse multiple connections, as with common nouns (Hollis & Valentine 2001).
