Geography and History of Ames

Re-enacting history: Women in the shadows « Atrás    

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
María Zambrano, Ángeles Santos, Concha Méndez, Josefina de la Torre, Rosario de Velasco, Marga Gil Roësset, María Teresa León, Ernestina Champourcin, Maruja Mallo y Rosa Chancel.
 

Ana Beiroa Ons, Candela Casal Veiga, Carla Álvarez Juncal, Carla Cantelar Ces, Gabriela Carballal Pazos, Lidia Bugallo Nieto , María Dans Rosende, Nerea González Carnero, Sara Arufe Jorge, Sofía De Abreu Rodrigues , Soraya Cebey Fernández · 22 febrero 2018 10:37


Name of the male historic character
The male group is: Generation of´27

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"Las Sinsombrero" is the name by which we know a group of women thinkers and spanish artists belonging to "La Generación del 27", born between 1898 and 1914.
Madrid was the city where the great majority of them resided, study and developed their artistic activity.
They were important in writing, painting, sculpture, illustration or philosophy.
They were independent women with strong personality.
Moreover they were women open to new ways of modernity, commited to their time and their social reality. But their attitude was groundbreaking and open, transforming the cultural and artistic panorama.

Name´s origin: one day in Madrid in the 20s, Federico García Lorca, Salvador Dalí, Margarita Manso and Maruja Mallo walked through the "Puerta del Sol" taking off their hats. This attitude pretended to free ideas and concerns, for that reason they were stoned and called everything.
This event turned them into rebels, especially to women.

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Name of the female historic character
Coretta Scott King
 

Bruno Vázquez Pérez, Uxía Fernández Blanco · 24 febrero 2018 18:08


Name of the male historic character
Martin Luther king

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Coretta Scott King, was a writer and, an advocate for LGBT rights and a civil rights fighter just like her husband Martin Luther King. In 2004, she won the Gandhi Peace Prize. Months after her husband was murdered she became a very good politic. Coretta King reaffirmed his opposition to the segregation of the black population, participating in a series of protests that inspired the entire country to demonstrate against racist policies.
She was born on April 27, 1927 United States Marion, Alabama, United States and she died 30 de enero de 2006 Bandera de México Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, México because she had ovarian cancer.

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Name of the female historic character
Carmen de Burgos Colombine
 

Nerea Sánchez Lens · 21 febrero 2018 15:42


Name of the male historic character
Perico el de los Palotes

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Belongs to the generation of 98. She is considered the first professional journalist in history. She had to hide her reformist profile with a multitude of pseudonyms such as Perico el de los Palotes. Her marriage was a disappointment because her husband was an infidel. When her son dies, she abandons her husband and, together with her daughter, settles in Madrid. From 1902 he collaborated with the newspaper El Globo. At the end of 1906 he resumed his teaching and journalistic work and launched a campaign in El Heraldo de Madrid in favor of female suffrage. With the proclamation of the Second Republic in 1931, the new constitution recognized civil marriage, divorce and female voting. She died at sixty years of age,and was buried in the civil cemetery of Madrid.
After the Civil War and the victory of the Franco regime, his name was included in the list of prohibited authors and his books disappeared from libraries and bookstores.

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Chien-Shiung Wu
 

Hugo Martínez Velo, Jesús Altuve, Uxía Iglesias Soñora · 23 febrero 2018 18:34


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Tsung-Dao Lee and Yang Chen Ning

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