Historia: 100 mujeres que cambiaron el mundo
Un repaso de los grandes hitos de la historia que han sucedido gracias a nosotras.
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No es la primera (ni la última) vez que las mujeres marcan un antes y un después en la Historia.
A lo largo de la historia, muchas mujeres han luchado por conseguir un espacio destacado en un mundo que parecía ser dominado por los hombres.
Muchos avances y costumbres han cambiado a lo largo de los años gracias a su esfuerzo que, de una forma u otra, ha marcado un antes y un después
An 1840 portrait of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, by painter Alfred Edward Chalon. Science & Society Picture Library/Wikimedia Commons
If you re surprised that the first computer programmer in the world was a woman, just wait; her story gets even more interesting. Ada Lovelace was also the daughter of famous poet Lord Byron and accomplished her work during a time when women rarely studied mathematics and science. How Lovelace became an accomplished mathematician and computer programmer is the subject of The Ada Lovelace Episode: Who was the Enchantress of Numbers? from the podcast Stuff You Missed in History Class.
Lovelace was born Augusta Ada Byron in 1815, the daughter of Lord Byron and the wealthy Isabella Milbanke. The two had a stormy marriage, and her father left the family almost immediately after her birth, never to see her again. Milbanke was furious with her ex and insisted her daughter steer clear of poetry, which she blamed for Byron s wanton and unstab
Newport Daily News
MIDDLETOWN Veterans over the age of 85 were mostly happy as they waited Saturday morning in car lines to get a dose of the COVID vaccine at the VA Clinic off West Main Road.
The VA personnel administered 200 shots in the arms of veterans at the clinic. A few of the veterans were younger than 85 because they have complicating risk factors such as being on dialysis, healthcare workers said.
“As soon as we get the vaccines, we put them in people’s arms,” said Larry Connell, director of the Veterans Affairs Providence Health Care System, who was in charge of the clinic. He is a retired U.S. Army colonel who served for 30 years before returning to Middletown, where he grew up.
By SEAN FLYNN | Newport Daily News, R.I. | Published: February 15, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. MIDDLETOWN, R.I. (Tribune News Service) Veterans over the age of 85 were mostly happy as they waited Saturday morning in car lines to get a dose of the COVID vaccine at the VA Clinic off West Main Road. The VA personnel administered 200 shots in the arms of veterans at the clinic. A few of the veterans were younger than 85 because they have complicating risk factors such as being on dialysis, healthcare workers said.