administrative organization and delicate diplomatic relations with Top Brass -- British, American and Chinese ; ;

Brass Dice | die, along with zinc and copper samples.

Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc ; the proportions of zinc and copper can be varied to create a range of brasses with varying properties.

Brass was produced by the cementation process where copper and zinc ore are heated together until zinc vapor is produced which reacts with the copper.

( 1990 ) " The Production of Brass in Antiquity with Particular Reference to Roman Britain " in Craddock, P. T.

The success of the pairing prompted both acts to record repeatedly through 1950, producing such rhythmically comical fare as " The Woody Woodpecker Song " ( based on the frisky bird from the Walter Lantz cartoons, and another Billboard hit for the quartet ), " Put ' em in a Box, Tie ' em with a Ribbon ( And Throw ' em in the Deep Blue Sea )," " The Big Brass Band from Brazil ," " It's a Quiet Town ( In Crossbone County )," " Amelia Cordelia McHugh ( Mc Who?

A bronze plaque inscribed with Drake's claim to the new lands – Drake's Plate of Brass – fitting the description in his account, was discovered in Marin County, California but was later declared a hoax.

Others, like Brass, were republics with small senates, and those at Cross River and Old Calabar were ruled by merchants of the ekpe society.

Brass has a number of qualities that make it almost ideal for a cartridge, including low friction against steel, making it easier to extract, and the ease with which casings can be manufactured.

The said Patentee hath also projected a Very Useful Engine for starting of beer and other liquors which will deliver from 20 to 30 barrels an hour which are completely fixed with Brass Joints and Screws at Reasonable Rates.

Attacks on Bryan were frequent and acidic: Life awarded him its " Brass Medal of the Fourth Class ," for having " successfully demonstrated by the alchemy of ignorance hot air may be transmuted into gold, and that the Bible is infallibly inspired except where it differs with him on the question of wine, women, and wealth.

Sousaphone player Tycho Cohran with the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble in Washington Square, New York City

Heinlein's original title for the novel was The Brass Cannon, replaced with the final title at the publisher's request.

Brass instruments, when played with no valves engaged ( or, for trombones, with the slide all the way in ), play a series of notes that form the overtone series based on some fundamental pitch, e. g., the B trumpet, when played with no valves engaged, can play the overtones based on B.

Balkan Brass, or " truba " ( trumpet ) is a popular genre that originated during the First Serbian Uprising ( 1804 – 1813 ) with military marching bands that transposed Serbian folk music.

The club runs various events including the Christmas Concert in December each year with the LGB Brass and the annual " International ' Toad-In-The-Hole ' Competition " and holds street collections to raise funds so as to assist people and organisations in and around Lewes.

Although Coltrane's quintets with Dolphy ( including the Village Vanguard and Africa / Brass sessions ) are now legendary, they originally provoked Down Beat magazine to brand Coltrane and Dolphy's music as ' anti-jazz '.

Brass music is often heard together with a ( traveling ) carillon.

He is often credited with being instrumental in the development of jazz music as his Reliance Brass Band was the first to fuse European, African and Latin music together, and the earliest jazz musicians can be traced back to playing within the Reliance Brass Band or being influenced from those who had.

He, along with Louis Cottrell, Jr. founded and led the second incarnation of the Onward Brass Band from 1960 to 1969.

" These are the now-classic " Public Enemy / Whipped Cream Mixes ", with Public Enemy's inflammatory raps, " By the Time I Get To Arizona " and " Rebel Without a Pause " overdubbed onto instrumentals by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.

Brass, bronze, gunmetal, cast iron, steel, alloy steels and stainless steels are very common.

Brass or stainless steel fittings should be used instead.

Brass doorknobs disinfect themselves in about eight hours, while stainless steel and aluminium knobs never do.

The MIT class ring, commonly referred to as " The Brass Rat ," when cast in Celestrium ( also known as jeweler's steel ) is often referred to as " The Stainless Steel Rat " in reference to The Stainless Steel Rat series.

Brass ones are preferred over steel ones since the chances of getting rounded are less in brass ones.

More recently, the suburban town was a centre for steel and brass manufacture, especially at the well known Pegler's Brass Foundry and Bridon Ropery.

Brass is an alloy made from copper and zinc.

Brass is a substitutional alloy.

Brass has higher malleability than bronze or zinc.

Brass scrap is collected and transported to the foundry where it is melted and recast into billets.

Brass is susceptible to stress corrosion cracking, especially from ammonia or substances containing or releasing ammonia.

Brass made during the early Roman period seems to have varied between 20 % to 28 % wt zinc.

and Eckstein, K ( 2003 ) " Production of Brass in Antiquity by Direct Reduction " in Craddock, P. T.

( 1990 ) " Brass and Zinc in Europe from the Middle Ages until the 19th Century " in Craddock, P. T.

* Day, J ( 1991 ) " Copper, Zinc and Brass Production " in Day, J and Tylecote, R. F ( eds ) The Industrial Revolution in Metals London: The Institute of Metals

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Brass instruments may also be characterised by two generalizations about geometry of the bore, that is, the tubing between the mouthpiece and the flaring of the tubing into the bell.

Dick Brass, a Vice President at Microsoft from 1997 to 2004, complained that the company was slow in moving ClearType to market in the portable computing field.

* Peter Brass, Advanced Data Structures, Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Notable Parsons-penned songs included "$ 1000 Wedding ", a holdover from the Burrito Brothers era, and " Brass Buttons ", a 1965 opus which addresses his mother's alcoholism.

* A Brief History of Interactive Fiction, a timeline of events in interactive fiction history at the Brass Lantern website.