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Women In History
I grew up believing that women had contributed nothing to the world until the 1960′s. So once I became a feminist I started collecting information on women in history, and here’s my collection so far, in no particular order.
Lepa Svetozara Radić (1925–1943) was a partisan executed at the age of 17 for shooting at German soldiers during WW2. As her captors tied the noose around her neck, they offered her a way out of the gallows by revealing her comrades and leaders identities. She responded that she was not a traitor to her people and they would reveal themselves when they avenged her death. She was the youngest winner of the Order of the People’s Hero of Yugoslavia, awarded in 1951
23 year old Phyllis Latour Doyle was British spy who parachuted into occupied Normandy in 1944 on a reconnaissance mission in preparation for D-day. She relayed 135 secret messages before France was finally liberated.
Catherine Leroy, War Photographer starting with the Vietnam war. She was taken a prisoner of war. When released she continued to be a war photographer until her death in 2006.
Lieutenant Pavlichenko was a Ukrainian sniper in WWII, with a total of 309 kills, including 36 enemy snipers. After being wounded, she toured the US to promote friendship between the two countries, and was called ‘fat’ by one of her interviewers, which she found rather amusing.
Johanna Hannie “Jannetje” Schaft was born in Haarlem. She studied in Amsterdam had many Jewish friends. During WWII she aided many people who were hiding from the Germans and began working in resistance movements. She helped to assassinate two nazis. She was later captured and executed. Her last words were “I shoot better than you.”.
Nancy wake was a resistance spy in WWII, and was so hated by the Germans that at one point she was their most wanted person with a price of 5 million francs on her head. During one of her missions, while parachuting into occupied France, her parachute became tangled in a tree. A french agent commented that he wished that all trees would bear such beautiful fruit, to which she replied “Don’t give me any of that French shit!”, and later that evening she killed a German sentry with her bare hands.
After her husband was killed in WWII, Violette Szabo began working for the resistance. In her work, she helped to sabotage a railroad and passed along secret information. She was captured and executed at a concentration camp at age 23.
Grace Hopper was a computer scientist who invented the first ever compiler. Her invention makes every single computer program you use possible.
Mona Louise Parsons was a member of an informal resistance group in the Netherlands during WWII. After her resistance network was infiltrated, she was captured and was the first Canadian woman to be imprisoned by the Nazis. She was originally sentenced to death by firing squad, but the sentence was lowered to hard lard labor in a prison camp. She escaped.
Simone Segouin was a Parisian rebel who killed an unknown number of Germans and captured 25 with the aid of her submachine gun. She was present at the liberation of Paris and was later awarded the ‘croix de guerre’.
Mary Edwards Walker is the only woman to have ever won an American Medal of Honor. She earned it for her work as a surgeon during the Civil War. It was revoked in 1917, but she wore it until hear death two years later. It was restored posthumously.
Italian neuroscientist won a Nobel Prize for her discovery of nerve growth factor. She died aged 103.
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jinxedinks added: Her name was Rita Levi-Montalcini. She was jewish, and so from 1938 until the end of the fascist regime in Italy she was forbidden from working at university. She set up a makeshift lab in her bedroom and continued with her research throughout the war.
A snapshot of the women of color in the woman’s army corps on Staten Island
This is an ongoing project of mine, and I’ll update this as much as I can (It’s not all WWII stuff, I’ve got separate folders for separate achievements).
File this under: The History I Wish I’d Been Taught As A Little Girl
Street Art: Before & After.
today i learned fish can be dicks
https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syd_Barrett
Checa esta noticia: Memorial: rockeros que murieron en 2017 https://www.unotv.com/noticias/portal/entretenimiento/detalle/rockeros-que-fallecieron-en-2017-556475/?utm_source=shared&utm_medium=boton-whatsapp&utm_campaign=social-clicks
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Feliz navidad zoquetes!!!
As requested by @callmejake13, here’s some vocab related to movies and filmmaking! I’ll make one related to drama/theatre at some point as well.
DER FILM die Besetzung - cast der Schauspieler/die Schauspielerin - actor/actress die Rolle - role/part der Regisseur/die Regisseurin - director (m/f) die Produktion - production der Produzent/die Produzentin - producer (m/f) das Drehbuch/das Skript - script der Drehbuchautor - writer die Szene - scene das Szenenbild - production design das Set - set die Maske - hair and make up - (die Maske usually means ‘mask’ but in movie/drama it means the hair and make up department) der Maskenbildner/die Maskenbildnerin - make up artist (m/f) der Kostümbildner/die Kostümbildnerin - costume designer (m/f) der Schnitt - cut die Kamera - camera das Mikrofon - microphone die Musik - music der Soundtrack - soundtrack die Premiere - premiere der Trailer - trailer
DAS GENRE der Krimi (short for: Kriminalfilm) - crime der Actionfilm - action movie der Thriller - thriller der Horrorfilm - horror movie die Komödie - comedy der Liebesfilm - romantic movie die romantische Komödie - romcom der Fantasy-Film - fantasy movie die Serie - series der Blockbuster - blockbuster - (we have German words for it like Kassenschlager but nobody says that, we just use the English word) der Stummfilm - silent film
VERBEN filmen - to film, as in the action of rolling a camera on something verfilmen - to film, as in turning a concept into a movie (mostly used when books are adapted into movies) (einen Film/eine Szene) drehen - to shoot (a movie/scene) einen Film (an)schauen/(an)sehen - to watch a movie schauspiele®n - to act
WIE WAR DER FILM? - ADJEKTIVE spannend/aufregend - exciting, thrilling schaurig - creepy düster - dark, gloomy furchteinflößend - scary lustig - funny heiter - upbeat außergewöhnlich - extraordinary romantisch - romantic kitschig - sappy herzerweichend - heart-melting traurig - sad (be)rührend/bewegend - touching/moving beeindruckend - impressive unbeeindruckend - unimposing langweilig - boring
Happy Halloween 1st 🎃
Rainy day vocabulary in German
der Regen - rain regnen - to rain regnerisch; verregnet - rainy der Regentag - rainy day der Regenschauer - shower der Nieselregen - drizzle der Schneeregen - sleet der Regentropfen - rain drop die Regenwolke - rain cloud die Pfütze - puddle das Wasser - water das Hundewetter (coll.) - unpleasant weather (“dog’s weather”) der Nebel - mist das Gewitter - thunderstorm der Donner - thunder der Blitz - lightning der Hagel - hail der Sturm - storm der Wind - wind der Regenbogen - rainbow der Regenschirm - umbrella der Regenmantel - rain coat die Regenstiefel - rain boots
nieseln - to drizzle schütten; in Strömen regnen - to pour prasseln - to patter hageln - to hail nass - wet neblig - misty feucht - humid kühl - chilly nasskalt - clammy wasserfest - waterproof
