Gerooooooooooooonimooooo

I guess most of you have heard somebody shouting "Gerooooonimooooooo" when doing somehting brave or crazy (and maybe it generates a mental image of somebody jumping from a high place).
Do you know why people use that name?
His real name was Goyaalé (which in Chiricahua, an Athabaskan language spoken in what today is Oklahoma and New Mexico, means "one who yawns") and was an Apache leader who founght the U. S. government for more than 25 years. The name Gerónimo was actually given by the Mexican army. Wikipedia says:

This appellation stemmed from a battle in which he repeatedly attacked Mexican soldiers with a knife, ignoring a deadly hail of bullets, in reference to the Mexicans' plea to Saint Jerome. The name stuck.

But what does all this have to do with the initial thing? Well, there is a 1939 film which title is Geronimo, in which the actor playing Geronimo yells his name as he leaps from a high cliff into a river, depicting a real-life escape Geronimo successfully attempted in which with his Cadillac horse, he jumped off Medicine Bluff at Fort Sill, Oklahoma into the Medicine Creek. One man from the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, named Aubrey Eberhardt, said he was going to shout that name when his moment for jumping came just to show he was not afraid.
Since then, the motto for that regiment is "Geronimo".

Exactly 122 years ago, on September 4th, 1886, the Apache chief Geronimo surrendered to the U. S. troops.

You can read more about his life and watch a video here.

-Javier