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Mata Hari
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Mata Hari
A.k.a. Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, Mata Hari earned her fame as an exotic dancer in the early 1900s and traveled across Europe meeting and bedding numerous powerful men. During World War I, Mata Hari found herself on the payroll of both the Germans and the French, who discovered her two-timing and promptly had her tried and executed despite her claims of national fidelity

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