Geography and History of Ames

Re-enacting history: Women in the shadows « Atrás    

Name of the female historic character
Martha Gellhorm
 

Adrián Vilariño Abelenda, Natalia Vázquez Fernández · 23 febrero 2018 22:02


Name of the male historic character
Ernest Hemingway

Explanation
Ernest Hemingway is an American writer and journalist like Martha Gellhorn. She dedicated one of her novels to Hemingway. They met in the course of a family trip to "Cayo Hueso" during the Christmas of 1936 after they married in 1940 and divorced five years later because she could not take it anymore, or so he said.

Finally he died on February 15, 1998 because of the suicide in London, she was sick and almost completely blind and Ernest Hemingway died on July 2, 1961 with 61 years because of suicide.


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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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
Marcela Gracia Ibeas
Elisa Sánchez Loriga
 

Andrea Fernández Fermoso, Paula Núñez Amado · 27 febrero 2018 18:50


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Elisa and Marcela were the first women´s that get married in Spain. In that time it was forbidden, so they had to get married hidden, because of that, Elisa had to inpersonate a man. When they were at their wedding ceremony, the parish priest discovered that they were two women. They were persecuted and fined but nevertheless the union was never annulled.


Name of the female historic character
Las sin sombrero
 

Alejandro Liste Liñares, Anxo Blanco Pazos, Brais Crespo Berdullas, Daniel Lorenzo Estévez, Francisco Fuentes Fandiño, Javier Pensado , Javier Jesús Chouza Picallo, Martín López Rodríguez, Pablo García Gómez, Rafael Maio Brioso · 28 febrero 2018 22:14


Name of the male historic character
Generation of the 27

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