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Geography and History of Ames

Re-enacting history: Women in the shadows « Atrás    

Name of the female historic character
Gala (Elena Ivanovna Diákonova)
 

Andrés Castelo Corral, Lucía Dieste Piñeiro · 27 febrero 2018 17:17


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Dalí (Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech)

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Name of the female historic character
Margaret Keane
 

Celia Corral Noguera, Rafael Barbosa Silva · 21 febrero 2018 17:35


Name of the male historic character
Walter Keane

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Margaret and Walter Keane were important in the art field because Margaret painted the famouse pictures of kids with big eyes (that became famouse at the sixties) and Walter took the whole merit.

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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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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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Name of the female historic character
Jeanne Baret .
 

Lucas Alonso · 20 febrero 2018 19:34


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Jeanne baret con el pseudonimo jean baré nació el 27 de julio de 1740 en francia en  Saint-Aulaye, Breuilh,
Y murió el 5 de Agosto de 1807 en el mismo sitio
Fue una botánica francesa. La primera mujer en circunnavegar el mundo( disfrazada de hombre).
A foto do seu traballo tamén e moi representativo debido a que é a única planta que se conservou.

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