Silk Road takes its name from the historic trade routes spanning across Europe, Asia and parts of Africa.
Have Gun, Will Travel takes its name from the title of a famous 1950s gunslinging western TV show.
The golf club's new competition, the Bonnie Prince Charlie Shield, takes its name from Prince Charles Edward Stuart.
Hamas takes its name from the Arabic initials for the Islamic Resistance Movement.
The Bavarian brewery takes its name from the Paulaner monks who produced the original doppelbock called Salvator, Latin for savior.
This absorbing, uneven romantic comedy-drama, set in a small Irish town in 1957, takes its name from a travelling troupe.
Fitting perhaps that the district takes its name from a nearby shrine to a man born of India's untouchable castes.
The phenomenon takes its name from Barbra Streisand, who made her own ill-fated attempt at reining in the Web in 2003.
The organization takes its name from Robert Baden-Powell, whose initiatives in Britain in starting in 1907 launched the international Scouting movement.
The dance takes its name from the refrain repeated after each verse, although the exact meaning of the word is unknown.
Greedy takes its name from a kind of computer algorithm that emphasizes the virtues of the practical over the precise in problem-solving.
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It takes its name from the four fixed objects - buildings, antennae, spans and earth - which divers use to take off.
It takes its name from section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code.
Niantic Labs, after all, takes its name from a 120-foot sailing ship that arrived in San Francisco 160 years ago for the Gold Rush.
Its citizen journalism site Your Anon News takes its name from the group's social media news feeds and aims to collect breaking reports and blogs.
The race, which began inauspiciously with eight runners in 2004, takes its name from the ancient Greeks from Sparta who emphasized physical training and discipline.
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The album, full of card and dice metaphors, takes its name from a street just off the Vegas Strip and draws heavily from Flowers' hometown.
It takes its name from the huge, red rock that stands aloof in the desert, towering above a narrow ridge that points towards it like an arrow.
The film takes its name from the practice of setting a small fire to clear out nearby brush, allowing a fast-advancing forest fire to pass by harmlessly.
The inn is the pet project of Canadian construction magnate Cliff Lede (that's his eponymous winery directly below) and takes its name from his top red blend, also called Poetry.
Britvic, which takes its name from its predecessor the British Vitamin Products Company, has started a consultation with staff, with the affected sites to close in the first quarter of next year.
The band takes its name from one of the many plays Muhl wrote when she was a child, and here she goes into some detail about the imaginative plot of that play.
Becher's Brook takes its name from Captain Martin Becher, who fell from his mount, Conrad, in the first official Grand National in 1839, and took shelter in the brook to avoid injury.
With a low-slung design and a top speed of 115, it's perfect for scenic back-roads cruising (the motorcycle takes its name from the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, where earlier models were raced in the 1950s).
The challenge is said to come from the 301 Group - an organisation of Tory MPs which takes its name from the number of seats needed to form a majority in the next House of Commons.
The ritual performance of Dainichido Bugaku takes its name from this story, but the art evolved considerably since, reflecting local features as elders transmitted it to the young within each of the four local communities of Osato, Azukisawa, Nagamine and Taniuchi.
And by no means must it have origins in Kashmir, the mountainous region from which it takes its name.
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