The stone features place names from along the route and was hand-carved by local artist Iain Cotton.
Many of the place names in Caithness can be traced back to the time of the Vikings.
In 1933 Charles Darrow produced a much simplified version that eschewed socialism and used Atlantic City place names.
You have to realize that these place names represent the local tradition, the local culture, the local know-how.
When it came to understanding English place names, there was no substitute for donning your wellies and using your eyes.
The very place names in Gothenburg breathe well-intentioned internationalism: Esperanto Square, Olof Palme Place, after its third-world-minded prime minister assassinated in 1986.
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She never held an academic post, but lectured widely, wrote a dozen books and produced three of the county surveys of place names.
Mr Faith said Tolkien, as a boy, was fascinated with the Welsh place names he saw on a train journey from Birmingham to Aberystwyth.
"Place names are the autobiography of a nation, " he says.
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For place names, a less traumatic solution would have been to simply push for wider public awareness and acceptance of the current spellings, which broadly follow the M-R system.
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Variations of place names for Nazareth (sometimes called Natzrat or Nazara), Capernaum (Kapharnaum) and Tzippori (Sepphoris) appear in biblical texts and in the Talmud, an ancient Jewish rabbinical scripture written in Hebrew and Aramaic.
Ms. LINDA REIFF (Executive Director, Napa Valley Vintners): We are aware that our position is different than the governments and than some other American producers, and that is we believe in respecting all wine-growing place names.
Examples include satellite maps that only show cloud cover, towns located in the wrong place, missing bodies of water, absent roads, incorrectly spelt place names and suggested driving directions that would take users on odd routes.
After that, I read everything about England I could get my hands on: geography, geology, architecture, folklore, fiction, place-names, pottery, poetry and plants.
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Reared in the honest precincts of New England, she could not get used to Texas place-names that advertised mountains that were barely more than hummocks or supposedly mighty lakes that would not have qualified as a pond back home.
The decisions they are making now--move beyond footwear? sell shoes under other brand names? place a big bet overseas?
It would be a lesser place if you erased names such as Jean Hoerni, Federico Faggin and Andy Grove.
But even with well-marketed names in place, consumers seem to care little.
Hand painted place settings with our names completed the beautiful scene.
But the spoils went to Kuchar, who claimed his first win since The Barclays in 2010 and can now take his place among some legendary names to have triumphed at the Players.
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The decisions they make now--move beyond footwear? sell shoes under other brand names? place a big bet outside the U.S.?--could determine whether this company will become the next Nike or another Greenberg disaster.
In the file, AOL used serial numbers in the place of users' screen names.
This is a favored place for world-famous names to come and chat to fans.
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You can add captions, tag it with a name of the place, your friends' names, and share them to Facebook or Twitter.
Samsung's 470 Series SSD range features an in-house controller, and it's obviously got a lot of work to do if it plans on ousting either of the previous two names from their place atop the pedestal.
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In their place came a collection of familiar names from less far-flung locales.
You think you have found the perfect place to work, get two names of people who can get you in front of the person who can hire you.
So some of the more equity-income, high-quality names might be a good place to stick.
Mr. Ortiz, the MTA spokesman, conceded that many of the subway's 468 stations do bear the names of people: Astor Place, Rockefeller Center, Dyckman Street.
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Plus Social Intelligence has proprietary technology for linking people with pseudonyms or online names they might use in place of the offline name known to their employer.
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