Mata hari

Savvy ghosts haunt outside and publicly. They know how to elude ghost-busters and researchers. Two such ghosts may be seen, maybe not, in Spain’s Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid.

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Perhaps no other female in history has used her feminine charms to such effect as Margaretha Zelle, better known by her alias Mata Hari. During the first

The incredible life of Mata Hari, the beautiful World War I-era dancer and spy, is going to be the subject of an upcoming series on Old Spirituals. In her day, Mata Hari inspired early film stars. …

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Mata Hari

Faced with a daunting and unfamiliar situation, many did what they had to do to overcome the hardships of World War One. Women, in particular, were able

One hundred years after her death, much of the life of Mata Hari is still a mystery.

One hundred years after her death, a new exhibit is putting the spotlight on the dancer’s life and legacy

This important and defining oil on canvas portrait features a stylized Mata Hari in the midst of one of her sensual, almost trance-like dances. The highly moody piece is a wonderful example of the 1900-1915 century Spanish modernismo movement by Anselmo Miguel Nieto, one of its brightest talents. This classically inspired yet fully modern painting applies formal chiaroscuro technique (the exaggerated use of light and dark to create a dramatic perspective) to one of the great courtesans of…

The controversial life and death of Mata Hari, the glamorous WWI double agent, executed in 1917, has recently been reassessed in the light of new evidence.

Once Europe’s most prominent striptease performer, Dutch dancer Mata Hari was executed by a French firing squad after she was found guilty of spying for the Germans during World War I.

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