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  • Apache historian questions official narratives: ‘How is it possible that 120 soldiers cut off the feet of 8,000 of our brave Indigenous people?’

    11/27/2022 6:17:46 AM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 129 replies
    El Pais ^ | 26/11/22 | Vicente G. Olaya
    Alfonso Borrego is the great-grandson of Geronimo, a prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Apache people. Geronimo was known for his fearlessness – he resisted both the Mexican and American militaries when they attempted to remove his people from their tribal lands in the late-1800s. Borrego, 66, has spent years researching what happened to his people and his great-grandfather. While speaking with EL PAÍS, he discusses the various conflicting narratives that have been pushed over the past century. Some say that the Spanish drove the Indigenous to near-extinction in the United States, while others suggest...
  • 23-year-old man who ‘exited’ plane found dead in Fuquay-Varina after massive search

    07/30/2022 9:06:11 AM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 82 replies
    The News and Observer ^ | 30 July 2022 | KRISTEN JOHNSON
    A 23-year-old man who “exited” a plane Friday afternoon before it made an emergency landing at Raleigh-Durham International Airport was found dead around 7 p.m. in Fuquay-Varina, authorities said. ...Crooks was the plane’s co-pilot That was the tragic ending to a confusing emergency at RDU Friday. Around 3 p.m., a twin-engine turbo prop aircraft reported landing gear issues as it approached the airport, according to the airport. The plane landed on Runway 5R-23L and veered into the grass, according to the airport. The pilot, the only passenger on the plane when it reached the ground, was taken to a Duke...
  • Arsonist who started Dolan Fire in Big Sur sentenced to 24 years in prison

    05/18/2022 11:10:10 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 9 replies
    KSBW ^ | May 18, 2022 | Josh Copitch
    The man who started the 2020 Dolan Fire in Big Sur was sentenced to prison on Wednesday. Ivan Geronimo Gomez was found guilty of 16 felonies including arson, marijuana cultivation, injury to a firefighter and animal cruelty in April. Gomez was sentenced to 24 years in state prison. The Dolan Fire eventually destroyed 128,050 acres and 14 structures and may have killed 11 endangered condors. More than a dozen firefighters were injured, one critically, when they had to deploy their emergency fire shelters.
  • Geronimo the alpaca killed as legal row ends

    08/31/2021 7:08:35 AM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 1 replies
    BBC ^ | 31 Aug 2021 | BBC
    She argued the test used to test Geronimo was flawed and said he had tested positive previously because he had repeatedly been primed with tuberculin - a purified protein derivative of bovine TB bacteria.
  • NASA's parachute for Mars 2020 mission sets world record

    10/29/2018 9:33:30 AM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 21 replies
    ABC7 NY ^ | 29 Oct 2018
    A 180-pound parachute deployed in just four-tenths of a second -- twice the speed of sound -- setting a new record. The powerful parachute is needed for the heaviest payload yet to hit the surface of the red planet.
  • Geronimo died on this day in 1909: some history and why we yell his name when we jump out of planes

    02/17/2018 5:06:13 AM PST · by harpygoddess · 55 replies
    VA Viper ^ | 02/17/2018 | Harpygoddess
    February 17th is the anniversary of the death in 1909 of that legendary Chiricahua Apache chieftain, Geronimo (born ca. 1829), whose actual Indian name was Goyathlay ("One Who Yawns"). The name by which Geronimo is remembered was supposedly bestowed on him by a detachment of Mexican soldiers so stunned by the ferocity of his resistance that they repeatedly invoked the name of St. Jerome against him. The reason that U.S. airborne troops yell "Geronimo!" when they jump out of airplanes has to do with a 1939 movie entitled Geronimo which was viewed by a group of early paratroopers (the Parachute...
  • New York City couple leaps to their death because they 'can't afford' health care

    08/01/2017 3:59:33 PM PDT · by Ennis85 · 66 replies
    Aol.com ^ | July 28th 2017 | Alex Lasker
    A New York City couple jumped to their deaths from the 9th-floor window of a 17-story office building because they couldn't afford health care, according to their suicide notes. The Daily Mail reports that eyewitness Perry Kim, 49, was outside the Murray Hill building at around 5:30 a.m. on Friday morning when he heard screaming and saw two people falling from the sky. The bodies of 53-year-old man and a 50-year-old woman were found shortly thereafter on 33rd Street between Park and Madison avenues, according to the New York Post. Heartbreaking suicide notes were discovered in the pockets of both...
  • Quanah Parker’s House Joins Geronimo’s Teepee

    01/23/2017 11:07:12 AM PST · by Sean_Anthony · 14 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 01/23/17 | Michael Shannon
    Comanche’s last war chief, Quanah Parker It’s not every day you can lean on the dining room table that once belonged to the Comanche’s last war chief, Quanah Parker, and wonder if your feet are going to crash through the floorboards. The table that once hosted Teddy Roosevelt and Geronimo is now surrounded by a house that’s collapsing due to lack of funds and lack of will power.
  • Historic 1886 Winchester rifle draws world record-breaking $1.2 million at auction

    05/14/2016 2:17:33 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 100 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | May 14, 2016 | Jennifer Harper
    It has a fine walnut stock, a blue finish and a very simple inscription that reads “Albee to Lawton.” But this 19th-century rifle has become the most expensive single firearm ever sold at auction according to the Rock Island Auction Company, which recently sent the historic piece to a new destiny with an undisclosed buyer. The price: $1,265,000. “Other guns have sold higher as a pair, but no other single firearm surpasses this new world record. It was an honor to be entrusted with an American treasure,” said Kevin Hogan, president of the Illinois-based company. The rifle itself was a...
  • Geronimo died on this day in 1909 - here's why we yell his name when we jump out of planes

    02/17/2016 4:16:39 AM PST · by harpygoddess · 34 replies
    VA Viper ^ | 02/17/2016 | HarpyGoddess
    February 17th is the anniversary of the death in 1909 of that legendary Chiricahua Apache chieftain, Geronimo (born ca. 1829), whose actual Indian name was Goyathlay ("One Who Yawns"). The name by which Geronimo is remembered was supposedly bestowed on him by a detachment of Mexican soldiers so stunned by the ferocity of his resistance that they repeatedly invoked the name of St. Jerome against him.
  • The U.S. Code Name for Bin Laden Was Actually 'Cakebread'

    06/09/2011 4:26:47 PM PDT · by posterchild · 6 replies
    atlantic wire ^ | June 9, 2011 | John Hudson
    Though the Navy SEAL team storming into bin Laden's Pakistan compound referred to the Al Qaeda leader as "Geronimo," Pentagon and CIA analysts knew him by a more culinary nickname: "Cakebread." The quirky piece of bin Laden death trivia comes from excerpts from a new book published by ABC News called Target: Bin Laden—The Death and Life of Public Enemy Number One. This morning, the network sent us a preview of the book with a conveniently bulleted list of its latest scoops:
  • Operation Geronimo - dishonors the Indian leader???

    05/10/2011 9:00:00 AM PDT · by CharlyFord · 27 replies
    LA Times ^ | May 10, 2011 | Karl Jacoby
    "Geronimo—ekia." With this coded message, sent on May 1, a U.S. Navy SEALs commando squad signaled the death of Osama bin Laden, the "enemy killed in action." The mission was pulled off without a hitch, but in the week since then, debate has raged in some circles about the code name. The administration hasn't explained why the operation targeting Bin Laden used the name of one of the nation's best-known Native Americans, saying the selection process of names for such missions is confidential. But the use of Geronimo's name speaks to the powerful, if unexamined, hold that the nation's "Indian...
  • Geronimo!

    05/06/2011 10:56:51 PM PDT · by TheConservativeCitizen · 31 replies
    The Constitution Club ^ | 05-06-11 | The Rat
    FROM THE “HERE WE GO AGAIN” DEPARTMENT Taking a break from filing lawsuits against sports teams and their mascots, native Americans are circling the wagons over the use of “Geronimo” as the mission code name for Osama bin Laden. Geronimo was an Apache leader who spent many years fighting the Mexican and U.S. armies until his surrender in 1886. Steven Newcomb, a columnist for the weekly newspaper Indian Country Today, wrote: “What the hell were they thinking? Why would the first African American President of the United States, as U.S. Commander in Chief, think nothing of U.S. military forces applying...
  • Congress to Examine "Inappropriate" and "Devastating" Use of "Geronimo" Codename in bin Laden...

    05/04/2011 10:30:59 AM PDT · by Sub-Driver · 86 replies
    Congress to Examine "Inappropriate" and "Devastating" Use of "Geronimo" Codename in bin Laden Mission May 04, 2011 10:25 AM ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe (@jaffematt) reports: The Senate Indian Affairs committee will hold a hearing Thursday on racist Native American stereotypes, a hearing that will now also address the Osama bin Laden mission and the code-name Geronimo. While the hearing was scheduled before the mission, a committee aide today said the linking of the name Geronimo with the world’s most wanted man is “inappropriate” and can have a “devastating” impact on kids. “The hearing was scheduled well before the Osama bin...
  • Onondaga Nation leaders blast 'Geronimo' codename for Bin Laden

    05/03/2011 8:31:07 PM PDT · by Behind Liberal Lines · 97 replies
    Syracuse NY: The Post-Standard ^ | Tuesday, May 03, 2011, 9:32 PM | Charles McChesney /
    Leaders of the Onondaga Nation blasted as “reprehensible” the assigning of the world’s most wanted terrorist “Geronimo” as a codename. Bin Laden was killed during an attack on his compound in Pakistan Sunday. “We’ve ID’d Geronimo,” U.S. forces reported by radio to the White House. Later, word came that “Geronimo” was dead. “Think of the outcry if they had used any other ethnic group’s hero,” the Onondaga Council of Chiefs said in a release Tuesday. “Geronimo bravely and heroically defended his homeland and his people, eventually surrendering and living out the rest of his days peacefully, if in captivity,” the...
  • Senate official: Wrong to link bin Laden, Geronimo

    05/03/2011 4:36:57 PM PDT · by Free ThinkerNY · 47 replies
    Associated Press ^ | May 3, 2011 | MATTHEW DALY
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The staff director for the Senate Indian Affairs Committee is objecting to the U.S. military's use of the code name "Geronimo" for Osama Bin Laden during the raid that killed the al-Qaida leader. Geronimo was an Apache leader in the 19th century who spent many years fighting the Mexican and U.S. armies until his capture in 1886.
  • Bin Laden Was Found at Luxurious Pakistan Compound

    05/02/2011 3:14:56 AM PDT · by CutePuppy · 92 replies
    Reuters via CNBC ^ | May 02, 2011 | Reuters
    U.S. forces finally found al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden not in the rugged mountains of Afghanistan's border, but in a million-dollar compound in an upscale suburb of Pakistan's capital, with his youngest wife, U.S. officials said early on Monday. They were led to the fortress-like three-story building after more than four years tracking one of bin Laden's most trusted couriers, whom U.S. officials said was identified by men captured after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. "Detainees also identified this man as one of the few al Qaeda couriers trusted by bin Laden. They indicated he might be living with...
  • Enhanced Interrogations Led to Bin Laden Kill: Senator

    05/03/2011 12:46:59 AM PDT · by CutePuppy · 14 replies · 1+ views
    CNBC ^ | May 03, 2011 | CNBC
    A member of the US Senate Intelligence Committee has told CNBC that the death of Osama Bin Laden was a direct result of enhanced interrogations."The information that eventually led us to this compound was the direct result of enhanced interrogations; one can conclude if we had not used enhanced interrogations, we would not have come to yesterday's action," US Senator Richard Burr in a telephone interview with CNBC. As a member of the US Senate Intelligence Committee, Burr was briefed on the attack on the compound that led to Bin Laden's death and believes the failure of Pakistani security forces...
  • Playboy Bunny, Tiffany Livingston, Tries To Exit Jet Mid-Flight

    09/10/2010 7:48:40 AM PDT · by day10 · 135 replies · 2+ views
    My Fox NY ^ | Today | Staff Report
    MYFOXNY.COM - A Playboy centerfold tried to bust out -- midair -- from a jet amid a bad case of high anxiety. Law enforcement officers met a JetBlue plane at its arrival gate in Newark Liberty International Airport Thursday afternoon because of a passenger who was causing a disturbance on board, the airline reported. The passenger was identified as 21-year-old Tiffany Livingston. She was aboard JetBlue Flight 522 from Florida to Newark, N.J., on Thursday when she bolted from her seat and tried to open the door of the plane. She had became agitated because of turbulence and appeared to...
  • Judge dismisses lawsuit over Geronimo's remains

    08/10/2010 8:37:57 AM PDT · by JoeProBono · 25 replies
    hosted ^ | Aug 10
    NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by descendants of the Apache warrior Geronimo, who claimed some of his remains were stolen in 1918 by a Yale University secret society. The lawsuit was filed last year in Washington by 20 descendants who want to rebury Geronimo near his New Mexico birthplace......