Re-enacting history: Women in the shadows

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
Claude Cahun

Inka Souto Costa · 26 febrero 2018 15:44

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Claude Cahun, pseudonym of Lucy Renée Mathilde Schwob, born in 1894 and deceased in 1954 (aged 60), was a French photographer and writer. It was considered a non-binary genre, a revolutionary thing at that time.
Claude escaped from the Nazis, survived death and captured him in his best photographs

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Name of the female historic character
Silveria Fañanas García

Adriana Cifuentes Zamalloa, Dominic Iglesias Rodriguez · 23 febrero 2018 19:39

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Santiago Ramón y Cajal

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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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Name of the female historic character
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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