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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]
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 ...
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.
Lawyers representing the alpaca’s owner have written to the Government suggesting his life could be spared in return for aiding bovine TB research.
Funny that assumming he converted for the last 2 years of his life, so much space on this page is taken up by his Christian beliefs. My next kindly edit perhaps --Rcollman 16:12, 26 November 2006 (UTC) Geronimo was a Medicine Man. He is often referred to as a Leader and Chief due to his bravery and high respect from his peers.
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.
Mercuriale was a prolific writer, though many books were ascribed to him that were compiled from the works of others. He remained in Padua until 1587, when he began teaching at the University of Bologna. In 1593, he was called by Ferdinando de' Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany, to Pisa. Cosimo wanted to increase the prestige of the university ...
Father Gerónimo Boscana. Gerónimo Boscana (Jerónimo Boscana) was an early 19th-century Franciscan missionary in Spanish Las Californias and Mexican Alta California.He is noted for producing the most detailed ethnographic picture of a Native Californian culture to come out of the missionary period, an account that "for his time and profession, is liberal and enlightened" (Kroeber 1959:282).