Geography and History of Ames

Re-enacting history: Women in the shadows « Atrás    

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Dorothy Vaughan,
Mary Jackson,
Katherine Johnson
 

Fátima Orosa Paz, Marina Jiménez Rivas, Zeltia Loureiro Esperante · 21 febrero 2018 19:36


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They are the three women who are in the shadow of Neil Armstrong, he was the first man to step on the moon, although the merit should be of these three women who remained in his shadow for being black women.

They were the ones who devised the trip to the moon and made the necessary calculations so that the rocket went and came back from the moon without problem.

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María Luz Morales
 

Malena Salas Pazos · 23 febrero 2018 20:50


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Lee Krasner
 

Diego Caeiro Costoya, Nerea Barbazán Suárez · 28 febrero 2018 18:29


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Jackson Pollock

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Jackson Pollock was a USA famous painter and a very important figure in the moviment of the abstract expressionism paint. Pollock was famous for his different and new style of paint, he splash paint. His woman, Lee Krasner, was another woman in the dark. She was a pianter too, but she didn't became famous and people didn't knew about she and they didn't gave the merit that she desserve, but she helps a lot of times to Pollock with his paints.
She was born in the 27 in October of 1908, and she died in the 19 of June in 1984, with 75 years old. Her husband, Jackson, was born in the 28 in January of 1912 and he died in the 11 in August of 1956, when he was 44 years old.

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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


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Generation of the 27

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Martha Coston
 

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


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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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