Description: Her real name was Elizabeth Jane Cochran. She sent a letter to the director so well written that he gave her the opportunity to become a reporter. After going through the Dispatch went to New York, where he hired Pulitzer for the New York World and did a research project voluntarily entering a psychiatric asylum and wrote an article reporting the horrible conditions and abuses suffered and got the authorities to take letters in the matter. But perhaps the return to the world in 72 days, six hours 11 minutes, was worth the congratulation of Jules Verne himself who did not think he could get it when he saw her in Paris during his trip.
Description: Just before the launching of the Great Eastern, the first steam liner and sail with an iron helmet, Isambard Kingdom Brunel posed for this snapshot that will last forever as the image of the greatest engineer of all time. Not in vain has he been voted the second most important British character of all time in the BBC poll (100 Greatest Britons).
Description: In mythology, love, challenges, weddings, traps, deceptions, everything fits. For a test to be left, here we have the wedding of Hipómenes and Atalanta. She who had rejected all those who had tried, challenged anyone who wanted to marry her to a race on foot, would only marry the one who managed to defeat her, and if the suitor lost, he should die. That's why Hippomenes asked Artemis for help, and she gave him three golden apples for the race, leaving them for Atalanta to entertain. With the first two she was able to recover the advantage that Hippomenes took him, but with the third, the brave suitor, he won the race and she married him. It is quite improbable that today victory was accepted as lawful since it was not clean, but in wh...
Description: In positive psychology, enthusiasm is one of the 24 strengths that humanity possesses. As a component of the virtue of courage, enthusiasm is defined as living life with a sense of emotion, anticipation and energy. Approaching life as an adventure; such that one has "motivation in challenging situations or tasks". Zest is essentially a concept of value and involves acquiring motivation to complete challenging situations and tasks. Those who have enthusiasm exude enthusiasm, enthusiasm and energy as they approach life's tasks. Therefore, the concept of enthusiasm involves performing wholehearted tasks, as well as being adventurous, vivacious and energetic. It discourages the focus on the negative views of psychology. It encompasses the no...
Description: You can be taller, even more attractive, but the greatness of this man was not what you saw but what you did. A crack of engineering in its purest form. So much for the Great Western railway line, the Royal Albert Bridge, Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol, and much more, it even designed the largest ship to date ...
Description: The Spanish galleon San Jose, became on June 8, 1708 in the most valuable treasure sunk in history. The figures range between 10,000 and 17,000 million dollars. The cargo consisted of coins, gold and silver bars, jewels and precious stones. That is why Charles Wager, informed in detail of the galleon's route, intercepted it in the Rosario Islands, some thirty miles from the port of Cartagena. Despite being accompanied by 16 more ships, Charles's target was San Jose and San Joaquin. For an hour and a half, the 64 guns were bombarded to defend themselves, until finally, as if it were a wrestler's will, before being captured, he took the treasure to the bottom of the Caribbean sea. 600 sailors died and only 11 were saved. Still today it res...
Description: Heights always give new points of view. Draw a memory and discover the emotion of that moment, is a therapy. Letting the feelings arise when contemplating the result is the method. And the joy of knowing oneself is the conclusion. A simple walk through the mountain of Montjuïc, and a work that emerges alone.
Description: In truth, it is just and necessary to give an impact to those who have equipped the world with instruments so that the masters of music can compose and interpret their creations. And sincerely, little is said about them. That is why the ideogram is dedicated to the Bartolomeo Cristofori patavino. Back in the year 1700, the first reliable reference was made referring to the instrument as a harpy-beast. Surely all the composers are very grateful to Bartolomeo, since it allows a very practical musical composition and learning.
Description: In the small newspaper Shetland Journal, its owner dreamed of making cruises to visit Scotland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, therefore, in 1835 he advertised a trip that never came to fruition. But along with Brodie Wilcox in Stromness they would create the Steam Navigation Company, which later became the P & O Cruises. Its routes are the true antecedents of modern cruises.
Description: Everyone who has ever flown is thanks to Lilienthal. He suffered many bruises and traumas, but he never failed to provide data that the Wright brothers later learned to take advantage of. But on August 9, 1896 when he was 48 years old in an accident he broke his spine and died on August 10 leaving for eternity his studies and progress and his spirit of dedication since his last words were "It is necessary that there be victims "
Description: In 1878, with eighteen years and after enrolling with sixteen years at the Sorbonne School of Science, he obtained his license ès sciences, 3 the equivalent of a master's degree at present, without being able to begin his doctoral studies due to lack of economic resources and going to work in an underpaid position as a laboratory assistant in the Sorbonne
Description: The migratory birds, in full flight, are of a beauty that goes beyond the predictable. The flight in formation, the long distances, the concept of group, a whole manifestation of values taken to the heights. They have an amazing ability to orient themselves through the magnetic field, the sun and the stars. That is why this ideogram pays homage to all the birds that leave their home and launch themselves into the greatest adventure that man has ever wanted, to cross the sky and cross the world.
Description: He arrived in Lincoln County in the state of New Mexico where he lived for only four years, beginning as a cowboy and ending up being one of the most famous gunmen in the territory. He was held responsible for the death of twenty-one men, although only nine of them have been tested, of which five occurred in shootings in which other men intervened alongside him (so it is not known whether he was the author or not of said deaths), two in self-defense, and another two during one of their jail leaks.
Description: You can have a dream, go to space, but doing it on holidays like the one that goes to Easter Island or the Caribbean is the bomb. Of course I call that thinking big. bravo for the ambitious projects, the great deeds and the capacity of the human being to improve day by day and put the limits of the achievements so high and never better said.
