Re-enacting history: Women in the shadows

Name of the female historic character
Gerda Taro. Her real name was Gerta Pohorylle.

Lucas Salvado García, Martina Llamazares Armesto · 21 febrero 2018 20:40

Name of the male historic character
Robert Capa. His real name was Endre Ernő Friedmann.

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Robert Capa was the pseudonym in which they hid a couple of photographers: Gerda Taro and Endre Ernő Friedmann. They were both photojournalist of war and they toke a lot of photos of the Second World War or the Spanish civil war. Much merit was brought to him even though she also took many photos, but recently an investigation starting in a photo revealed that Robert Capa was only a fake name. Until the present Gerda Taro was in the shadows but now she is coming to the light. She died in 1937, with only 27 years. Gerda died by an accident with a tank.

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Name of the female historic character
Dorothy Llucille Tipton

Noelia Freiría Iglesias, Pedro Guo · 16 febrero 2018 17:49

Name of the male historic character
Billy Tipton

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This girl seemed interesting to me because it was a great success because she had the courage to face the law, the rules, and impersonate a boy named Billy Tipton.
The reason why he was a boy was that his passion is to play the piano but since he was a woman and he was white he was not allowed, even so he faced all that and that has a lot of value.

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Name of the female historic character
Camille Claudel

Adrián Fernández Terán, Xiana Souto Picos · 28 febrero 2018 19:57

Name of the male historic character
Auguste Rodin

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It was precisely his passion for art that led him to know the one who, in his own words, was the woman of his life, Camille Claudel. The young woman became the muse of the artist, whom, however, she did part of the sculptures that Rodin finished and sometimes he got inspiration from Camille's sculptures. Rodin always says that he did the sculptures and not her.
She was also a promising sculptor but it is true that she has gone on to history for being Rodin's mistress and not for her work. At the age of 20 she starts working with Rodin where he was also the one who later would be, in addition to his mentor, his lover.
Rodin married with her but he never planned to leave his wife, just as he did not want to do it with the other "stable" lover he already had. Even the fact that Camille got pregnant made the artist change her mind. She aborted and pressure ended up breaking her relationship.
Camille spent the last few years of her life isolated in the psychiatric of Montdevergues.

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Name of the female historic character
Martha Coston

Brais Lado Rodríguez, Laura de la Torre González · 23 febrero 2018 13:58

Name of the male historic character
Benjamin Franklin Coston

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Martha Coston married Benjamin Franklin Coston a promising inventor, at age 19 he was supervisor of a pyrotechnic laboratory, excessive exposure to unprotected chemicals caused a rapid deterioration of his health he died at age 26.
Martha Coston faced her widowhood in charge of four children at age 21, two years later her mother and two of her children died.
Martha Coston found herself without money to support her family and decided to develop an invention that her husband had not managed to complete until he got the patent. The idea was to create a flare that, when exploding, spilled several colors to communicate different messages through combinations of light signals.
She is a shadow figure because the project she did with her husband's idea was signed in the name of her deceased husband because at that time they did not let the women sign their name, only the men could sign. When that law disappeared, the honors went to Martha Coston but at that time she was very old.

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Name of the female historic character
Margaret Hamilton.

Laura Montaña Mata, Mateo Pardal Vila · 22 febrero 2018 15:37

Name of the male historic character
Neil Armstrong.

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Margaret Heafield Hamilton is an American computer scientist systems engineer. Her most famous intervencion was the Apolo 11 mision when the human step the moon for the first time. She also gets some awards for her programms but, Neil Armstrong was the first person in the moon so he was so much famous than Hamilton. Whe he went out of their rocket all the world was see him on tv but people still inoring that, without Margaret help, the Saturno V could arrive to the moon.

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