Gone were the blue and gold uniforms of the 1990s in favor a more " retro " look with pinstripes, a traditional baseball font, and the colors of brick red, sand and black.

The bricks discovered were made of red sand, clay, stones and were baked at very high temperature.

Derived from the Tswana word Kgala, meaning " the great thirst ", or Khalagari, Kgalagadi or Kalagare, meaning " a waterless place ", the Kalahari has vast areas covered by red sand without any permanent surface water.

Rolling hills, woods, reddish white sand beaches, ocean coves and the famous red soil have given Prince Edward Island a reputation as a province of outstanding natural beauty.

Iron oxide gives the sand a red tint, particularly when the sun is low.

Like sand, sandstone may be any colour, but the most common colours are tan, brown, yellow, red, gray, pink, white and black.

The vast Qizilqum ( Turkic for " red sand "-- Russian spelling Kyzyl Kum ) Desert, shared with southern Kazakhstan, dominates the northern lowland portion of Uzbekistan.

Unaware of this work, Anton van Leeuwenhoek provided another microscopic description in 1674, this time providing a more precise description of red blood cells, even approximating their size, " 25, 000 times smaller than a fine grain of sand ".

Some of the culture of the late 1970s included what was termed the " Castro clone ", a mode of dress and personal grooming -- tight denim jeans, black or desert sand colored combat boots, tight T-shirt or, often, an Izod crocodile shirt, possibly a red plaid flannel outer shirt, and usually sporting a mustache or full beard — in vogue with the gay male population at the time, and which gave rise to the nickname " Clone Canyon " for the stretch of Castro Street between 18th and Market Streets.

Xocotl is the generic Nahuatl language classification for sour or acidic fruit, used in the names of many species of fruit tree including atoya-xocotl ( flowing stream plum ), maza-xocotl ( deer plum ), atoya-xocotl ( large plum ciruela ) te-xocotl ( yellow or red manzanilla ), xal-xocotl ( sand plum or guava ), and coua-xocotl ( serpent fruit ) but also used in particular for what is known in Spanish as Jocote.

The county is mostly covered by thin sand and red and yellow clay.

The Pinnacles, with white sand overlaying a red clay

Mallee Cliffs National Park preserves the original clay red plains of south west New South Wales, protecting extensive areas of flat to undulating sandy red plains and linear sand dunes formed during arid periods from 350, 000 to 500, 000 years ago.

Hunting is largely confined to the red kangaroo, Australian bustard, emu and lizard such as the sand goanna and perentie.

They have grayish brown loamy sand topsoils overlying yellowish brown or red sandy clay loam subsoils.

The downtown streets were laid with red bricks upon packed sand in the 1920s by locals and remain in use.

They feed on the extensive intertidal mudflats and roost at high tide on the red sand beaches of the Bay.

Medieval Muslim geographers spent a great amount of time debating the exact boundaries between Hejaz and Nejd in particular, but generally set the western boundaries of Nejd to be wherever the western mountain ranges and lava beds began to slope eastwards, and set the eastern boundaries of Nejd at the narrow strip of red sand dunes known as the Ad-Dahna Desert, some east of modern-day Riyadh.

Parts of the Gedo region, such as the Daawo region, have rocky mountains, while red sand is found in all areas and white sand dunes across the Jubba Valley.

Gazelles, oryx, sand cats, and spiny-tailed lizards are just some of the desert-adapted species that survive in this extreme environment, which features everything from red dunes to deadly quicksand.

The glass and steel wall contains a mixture of volcanic rock, various types of sand, red dolomite, and topsoil which are visible through the glass panels, and represents an attempt to bring what is underground up, and what is outside in.

Dot painting consist of various paint colours like yellow ( the sun ), brown ( the soil ), red ( desert sand ) and white ( the clouds and sky ).

The greater area is a popular tourist destination during the summer months, with day trippers attracted to its beaches, sand dunes, and wildlife-most particularly the red squirrels.

The coastline has a combination of long beaches, dunes, red sandstone cliffs, salt water marshes, and numerous bays and harbours.

** The star also represents the island itself: a land of often red soil bordered by white beaches in a blue sea.

Throughout its 186 miles it covers a huge range of maritime landscapes, from rugged and steep limestone cliffs and volcanic headlands to sheltered red sandstone coves, flooded glacial valleys, winding estuaries, and wide-open beaches.

The lifeguards wear red and yellow uniforms and patrols the beaches of Sentosa.

PEI is also famous around the world for its potato farms and rich red mud beaches.

# The five stars on the center cross bar are for the Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes-Alsace and Central Europe campaigns in which the First Army participated in World War II, the red arrowhead referring to the assault landing on the Normandy beaches.

Blue symbolises the sea and loyalty, white stands for purity, peace and the white beaches, green the vegetation, and red the ancestors and blood of the people.

The coastal strip of the province is given over to sandy beaches popular among Italians rather than foreigners ; moving inland, the central portion is an area of rolling farmland, producing red and white wines mainly of the Sangiovese, Montepulciano and Verdicchio grape varieties ; the mountain zone is densely forested, and its most famous agricultural product is the black truffle, the main market for which, however, is in Acqualagna just across the border in the province of Pesaro e Urbino.

The simple red flag warning system used by lifeguards on beaches in some resort areas in Penang was credited to reducing the number of fatalities.

Fascinated by this, the experts believed to have found a repellent for the creature and put forward the idea of red safety-nets for beaches ( these nets are usually used to keep the jellyfish away, but many still get through its mesh ).

The island has red sand beaches and a saltwater lagoon inhabited by flamingos and a bachelor sea lion colony.

It has red sandy beaches and areas of mangroves, with the eastern edge of the bay being made up of linear tidal creeks.

The northern shore of the bay is dominated by a long and low red cliff, 2 – 6 m in height, of pindan soil which gives the beaches there their distinctive red colouration.

The northern cowboy called all the red Mexican cattle which went up the trail `` Sonora reds '', while they called all cattle drove up from Mexico `` yaks '', because they came from the Yaqui Injun country, or gave 'em the name of `` Mexican buckskins ''.

The peoples of the Tarim Basin in northern China are now known to be Caucasian and there were widespread attempts to keep western archeologists from testing samples such as deliberately replacing the mummies or decapitating them, even defacing ancient cave painting depictions of these people with large amounts of body hair and features such as red colored hair and blue eyes.

In areas of northern Europe, there are programs in place that allow hunting of the red fox in the arctic fox's previous range.

* Kana Cone, a red nested cinder cone in northern British Columbia, Canada northeast of Eve Cone in Mount Edziza Provincial Park

A popular dessert in northern Germany is Rote Grütze, red fruit pudding, which is made with black and red currants, raspberries and sometimes strawberries or cherries cooked in juice with corn starch as a thickener.

* The privately owned Isle La Motte lighthouse on the northern end of the island was originally red, but it faded to pink over time.

The term red tide is also sometimes used to describe harmful algal blooms on the northern east coast of the United States, particularly in the Gulf of Maine.

* Styan's red panda A. f. styani lives in the east-northeastern part of its range, in southern China and northern Burma.

Today, the casks used are typically sherry or bourbon casks, but with many now coming from northern France with its huge supply of aged white oak casks used in both white and red wine production.

The McMahon Line is the red line marking the northern boundary of the disputed area.

Syrah is also the only red grape used in the wines of the northern Rhône.

Lobatae ( synonym Erythrobalanus ), the red oaks of North America, Central America and northern South America.

The name Barbarossa came from the northern Italian cities he attempted to rule, and means " red beard " in Italian – a mark of both their fear and respect.

Auroras seen near the magnetic pole may be high overhead, but from farther away, they illuminate the northern horizon as a greenish glow or sometimes a faint red, as if the Sun were rising from an unusual direction.

A few scattered fires ( red dots ) in northern South America: Venezuela ( left ), Guyana ( right ) and Brazil ( bottom center )

Quercus rubra, commonly called northern red oak or champion oak, ( syn.

Often simply called " red oak ", northern red oak is formally so named to distinguish it from southern red oak ( Q. falcata ), also known as the Spanish oak.

In lots of forests, the northern red oak grows straight and tall, to 28 m ( 90 ft ), exceptionally to 43 m ( 140 ft ) tall, with a trunk of up to 50 – 100 cm ( 20 – 40 in ) diameter.

Under optimal conditions, northern red oak is fast growing and a 10-year-old tree can be 5 – 6 m ( 15 – 20 ft ) tall.

A few other oaks have bark with this kind of appearance in the upper tree, but the northern red oak is the only tree with the striping all the way down the trunk.

The northern red oak is one of the most important oaks for timber production in North America.