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There’s also a legend that Geronimo himself came up with the battle cry, yelling his own name as he leapt down a nearly vertical cliff on horseback to escape American troops at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
"I like Geronimo just as he was, a human predator", said Milius. [10] "Geronimo was a man who saw the history of his people wiped out", added Milius. "I love the Apaches and Geronimo was the ultimate Apache. But Geronimo was more than an Apache he was the essence of a misfit rebel and he would never give up. He was a troublemaker and I ...
Haedo sets forth the legend that a young Arab who had embraced Christianity, and had been baptized with the name of Geronimo ("Jerome"), had been captured by a Moorish corsair in 1569 and taken to Algiers. The Arabs endeavoured to induce Geronimo to renounce Christianity, but as he steadfastly refused to do so, he was condemned to death. Bound ...
Harlyn Geronimo, known to be Geronimo's great-grandson, said to the Senate Commission on Indian Affairs: [93] [The use of "Geronimo" in the raid that killed Bin Laden] either was an outrageous insult [or] mistake and it is clear from the military records released that the name Geronimo was used at times by military personnel involved for both ...
The historical Geronimo was the leader of the Chiricahua Apache who defied the U.S. government and eluded capture. His name has long been embraced in United States military culture as a war cry. Channel 4 News said "According to some analysis today, the U.S. military chose the code name because bin Laden, like Geronimo, had evaded capture for ...
Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no objective meaning or purpose. [1] The inherent meaninglessness of life is largely explored in the philosophical school of existentialism, where one can potentially create their own subjective "meaning" or "purpose".
The exclamation Geronimo!, shouted when jumping from a great height, may have entered the English language through the 1939 film.During World War II, the film was shown to a group of paratroopers at Fort Benning, Georgia, who afterwards began to shout Geronimo! at the moment of jumping from the airplane.
Barry Hannah's fictions contain situational humor that spans a wide gamut, from the surreal to grotesque and black humor. [7] His first publication was a story that was placed in a national anthology of the best college writing when he was a student at the University of Arkansas.