Wikipedia
Prairie Fire can refer to:
- A wildfire in grassland
- A supercomputer at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- The mascot for Knox College of Galesburg, Illinois
- Saskatchewan Prairie Fire, of the Rugby Canada Super League
- Prairie Fire (magazine), a Canadian literary magazine
- Prairie Fire (mixed drink)
- A book by the radical group known as the Weather Underground Organization
- A painting by Blackbear Bosin
- Prairie Fire (TV series), a 15+ season running news magazine / documentary program produced by WILL, a public broadcasting station owned by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Operation Prairie Fire, US military strikes against Libya in 1986.
- Operation Prairie Fire, a US Studies and Observations Group (SOG) reconnaissance mission into Laos on February 20, 1968.
- Prairie Fire (ringette team), a team in National Ringette League.
A Prairie Fire is a mixed drink consisting of strong liquor and hot sauce. Many variations of a Prairie Fire in "shot" form exist. The origins of the shot are unknown but the earliest known styling of the drink is believed to have originated from the American Mid-West in the early 1970s when bar patrons were forced to drink hot sauce with shots of whiskey as punishment for losing bar bets. Since then, many types of alcohol have been substituted for whiskey, with tequila being the most popular.
Prairie Fire was a United States television news magazine focusing on Central Illinois. It was produced by WILL-TV, a public broadcasting station owned by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. One of the longest-running local TV programs in central Illinois, it last aired in 2010.
Prairie Fire is an award-winning Canadian journal of innovative writing that is published quarterly by Prairie Fire Press, Inc. Prairie Fire is located in Winnipeg, Manitoba and is published quarterly. Each issue is a fresh, vibrant mix of fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction by celebrated and emerging writers. Committed to its belief in the inherent value of the arts, Prairie Fire Press, Inc. engages and inspires its audience by providing a space for vital cultural exchange. Prairie Fire serves regional, national and international audiences by publishing exceptional literary writing and by collaborating in innovative arts projects and community outreach programs.
Prairie Fire has a reputation for consistently publishing new works by popular Canadian writers such as David Bergen, Di Brandt, George Bowering, Marilyn Dumont, Sue Goyette, Patrick Lane, Sylvia Legris, Daphne Marlatt, P.K. Page, Margaret Sweatman, Joan Thomas, Miriam Toews and Guy Vanderhaeghe.
Usage examples of "prairie fire".
The brush ended a scant half mile away, but the prairie fire was less than that.
He had done many remarkable things, including the time he had broken through three sets of latches which Mexicans had constructed to imprison him, but his greatest feat was leading a party of women through a prairie fire.
Once he and Buffalo Hump had set a prairie fire that had nearly caught the two men and burned them and their company.
I had marched and counter-marched with him: I had stood by him in the wars, and fought under his flag at the polls: I helped to heap the measure of glory that has crushed and smashed everything that has come in contact with it: I helped to give him the name of 'Hero,' which, like the lightning from heaven, has scorched and blasted everything that stood in its way--a name which, like the prairie fire, you have to burn against, or you are gone--a name which ought to be the first in war, and the last in peace--a name which, like 'Jack-o'-the lantern, blinds your eyes while you follow it through mud and mire.
The Progressive movement spread across this part of the country with the speed and fury of a prairie fire.
With the prairie fire raging behind him, he looked like a lone survivor from a bombing raid.
The smoke of the distant prairie fire had grown to a tall curtain.
He blew the match out, then held it until it was cold before letting it fall to the ground, lest it start a prairie fire.
Buildings with overly good environmental isolation kept flu germs in, and helped colds spread like a goddamned prairie fire.
The air was gradually clearing of the smoke from the prairie fire, though far off it could be observed burning yet.
The prairie fire was out of control, but that was of little concern to the men.