Red brass is also an alternative name for copper alloy C23000, which is composed of 14 – 16 % zinc, 0. 05 % iron and lead, and the remainder copper.

The country owes its former name of Upper Volta to three rivers which cross it: the Black Volta ( or Mouhoun ), the White Volta ( Nakambé ) and the Red Volta ( Nazinon ).

The " Red Sox " name was chosen by the team owner, John I. Taylor, around, following previous Boston teams that had been known as the " Red Stockings ".

The name Red Sox, chosen by owner John I. Taylor after the 1907 season, refers to the red hose in the team uniform beginning.

It was relaunched in November 2001 under the BBCi brand and operated under this name until 2008, when it was once more rebranded as BBC Red Button.

From 2008, the BBC gradually began to drop the BBCi name from its digital interactive TV services also, replacing it with the name BBC Red Button.

In early 1995, ACC changed its name to Red Hat Software, which has subsequently changed to simply Red Hat, Inc. Young served as Red Hat's CEO until 1999.

She pilots a generic heavy spacecraft called Red Tail which is pale blue despite the name and has been heavily modified with armament and tracking sensors.

Norris ' first act was to choose a new name for the team – the Red Wings.

This name relates to that of the Red Sea, then called the Erythræan Sea, from the Greek for " red ", ἐρυθρός, erythros.

The region was first referred to as Ma ' ikele Bahr (" between the seas / rivers ," i. e. the land between the Red Sea and the Mereb river ), renamed under Emperor Zara Yaqob as the domain of the Bahr Negash, called Midri Bahri ( Tigrinya: " Sea land ," though it included some areas like Shire on the other side of the Mereb, today in Ethiopia ) until the modern day, when its name was changed to Mereb Mellash ( beyond the river Mereb ) under the rule of Yohannes IV, the locals referred to this area as Midri Bahri.

The Kingdom of Italy created Eritrea at the end of the nineteenth century, using the classical name for the Red Sea (" erythra ").

* Hedwig, code name of Red Hat Linux version 6. 0 released April 19, 1999.

In keeping with the band's satirical nature, each member had a comical name: in addition to Kinky there was Little Jewford, Big Nig, Panama Red, Wichita Culpepper, Sky Cap Adams, Rainbow Colours, and Snakebite Jacobs.

The Khmer Rouge () literally translated as Red Khmers was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia.

In return his name appears attached to several species, as well as here and there throughout the American landscape, notably Lake Agassiz, the Pleistocene precursor to Lake Winnipeg and the Red River.

Two characters called Lugaid, a popular medieval Irish name thought to derive from Lugh, have three fathers: Lugaid Riab nDerg ( Lugaid of the Red Stripes ) was the son of the three Findemna or fair triplets, and Lugaid mac Con Roí was also known as mac Trí Con, " son of three hounds ".

The first resistance was the Red River Rebellion of 1869 – 1870 .< ref name =" martyr ">

Another game with the poker name, but with a vastly different mode of play, is called Acey-Deucey or Red Dog poker.

This name, based on the black colour of his cassock, was used to suggest a parallel between him and the " White Pope " ( since the time of Pope Pius V the Popes dresses in white ) and the Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples ( formerly called the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith ), whose red cardinal's cassock gave him the name of the " Red Pope " in view of the authority over all territories that were not considered in some way Catholic.

The name " Branch Davidian " is most widely known for the Waco Siege of 1993 on their property ( known as the Mount Carmel Center ) near Waco, Texas, by the ATF, FBI, and Texas National Guard, which resulted in the deaths of their leader, David Koresh, as well as 82 other Branch Davidians and four ATF agents.

They were organised at the national level, with offices in a number of London inns and taverns such as The Rosemary Branch in Islington which got its name from the sprigs of rosemary that Levellers would wear in their hats as a sign of identification.

* 1949 – Changes name to Defence Signals Branch

“ Thus says the Lord of hosts: Here is a man whose name is Branch ( Hebrew: Zemah ): for he shall branch out in his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord … he shall bear royal honor, and shall sit upon his throne and rule.

The Red Branch (; alternatively, ) is the name of two of the three royal houses of the king of Ulster, Conchobar mac Nessa, at his capital Emain Macha ( Navan Fort, near Armagh ), in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology.

In modern retellings it is sometimes used as the name of an order of warriors, the Red Branch Knights.

The name " Knights of the Red Branch " was also used by an Irish Catholic fraternal organization in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and San Francisco, California in the 19th and early to mid 20th centuries.

In Cormac McCarthy's debut novel The Orchard Keeper, Red Branch is the name of the town where the majority of the narrative's events take place.

At one time his works were published in English under the pseudonym ' Stephen Branch ' ( a translation of his real name ) when anti-German sentiment was running high.

To honor the original town name, the local town branch that flows near Crooked Creek and through town is called the Shawnee Town Branch.

Selbyville was originally known as Sandy Branch due to its location on a branch of that name emanating in the Cypress Swamp at the head of the St. Martin's River.

The community shares its name with Branch Township in Mason County, but is also within Sweetwater Township in Lake County.

In 1846, when a post office was established, the name was changed again to Olive Branch.

The name West Long Branch appears in the 1889 Wolverton Atlas of Monmouth County.

But in 1894, Surf City became incorporated, changing its name to Surf City in 1899 after the United States Postal Service demanded a name change before the town could incorporate, preventing it from being confused with Long Branch in Monmouth County.

: For the former name of the unincorporated community in Somerset County, see South Branch, New Jersey

The name of the town of Windsor likely originated from the 1813 will of Anderson Windsor, who owned land on Pond Branch and Yarrow Branch, near the present location of Windsor.

Mr. Cochran later changed the name to Farmers Branch to reflect the area's rich soil and farmland.

As its name suggests, Piedmont is located at the base of a mountain, in this instance the foot of the Allegheny Front, the eastern edge of the Allegheny Mountains or Appalachian Plateau, on the south ( West Virginia ) side of the North Branch of the Potomac River.

The name became Special Branch as the unit's remit widened.

According to the legendary historical accounts, the group settled in North Louth were known as the Conaille Muirtheimhne and took their name from Conaill Carnagh, legendary chief of the Red Branch Knights of Ulster.