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During Geronimo's final period of conflict from 1876 to 1909, he surrendered three times and eventually accepted life on the Apache reservations. While well-known, Geronimo was not a chief of the Bedonkohe band of the Central Apache but a shaman, as was Nokay-doklini among the Western Apache.
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.
Gerolamo Cardano (Italian: [dʒeˈrɔːlamo karˈdaːno]; also Girolamo [1] or Geronimo; [2] French: Jérôme Cardan; Latin: Hieronymus Cardanus; 24 September 1501– 21 September 1576) was an Italian polymath whose interests and proficiencies ranged through those of mathematician, physician, biologist, physicist, chemist, astrologer, astronomer, philosopher, music theorist, writer, and ...
He is an advocate for Space Exploration and Astronomy to under-privileged communities, and has served as a science communicator for the U.S. State Department [16] and Shakira's Barefoot Foundation to promote science in developing regions. [17]
Lawyers representing the alpaca’s owner have written to the Government suggesting his life could be spared in return for aiding bovine TB research.
For his contributions, he was awarded two encomiendas by Alonso de Estrada in 1526. He died in 1531 without heirs and his encomiendas reverted to the Crown. [4] His house in Mexico City later became the site of the first printing press to operate in the New World. [5]
Licerio Gerónimo e Imaya (August 27, 1855 – January 16, 1924) was a general of the Philippine Revolutionary Forces under Emilio Aguinaldo.He is remembered in Philippine–American War annals as the opposing general to Major General Henry Ware Lawton at the Battle of San Mateo on December 19, 1899, where Lawton lost his life along with 13 other Americans.
Geronimo (full title: Geronimo: The Story of a Great Enemy) is a 1939 American Western film starring Chief Thundercloud as Geronimo, the famous leader of Apache warriors who fought against American colonizers. It was directed by Paul Sloane. This is the first film depiction of Geronimo's life.