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In the Action in the Gulf of Sidra, codenamed Operation Prairie Fire, [2] the United States Navy deployed aircraft carrier groups in the disputed Gulf of Sidra in the Mediterranean Sea. Libya had claimed that the entire Gulf was their territory, at 32° 30' N, with an exclusive 62 nautical miles (115 km; 71 mi) fishing zone. [ 3 ]
Castilleja, commonly known as paintbrush, Indian paintbrush, or prairie-fire, is a genus of about 200 species of annual and perennial mostly herbaceous plants native to the west of the Americas from Alaska south to the Andes, northern Asia, and one species as far west as the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia.
Much of the work of Prairie Fire focused on international solidarity. [5] In 1976, the Committee joined the "July 4th Coalition" which was a larger solidarity alliance of a variety of leftist organizations including the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Puerto Rican Solidarity Committee as part of an effort of organizing counterdemonstrations for the official U.S. governmental ...
Prairie Fire (TV program), a news magazine/documentary program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, United States. Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism, a manifesto by the American radical group Weather Underground. Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, an American anti-capitalist activist group.
A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation. [ 1][ 2] Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identified as a bushfire ( in Australia ), desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, peat fire, prairie fire, vegetation fire, or ...
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder is a 2017 biography of Little House on the Prairie author Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Caroline Fraser. [1] It was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography , [ 2 ] the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, [ 3 ] and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize .
Museum at Prairiefire. / 38.8819; -94.6521. The Museum at Prairiefire is a museum in Overland Park, Kansas. The museum is a 42,000 square foot facility that opened in May 2014 and has received honors for its architecture style. [1] The museum carries displays created by other museums, such as American Museum of Natural History. [2]
Abbie Hoffman publicly praised Prairie Fire and believed every American should be given a copy. [114] The manifesto's influence initiated the formation of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee in several American cities. Hundreds of above-ground activists helped further the new political vision of the Weather Underground. [113]