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Mata Hari was born in Leeuwarden, Holland in 1876. She was a Dutch dancer and a spy in German service during WWI. Her real name was Margaretha Geertruida Zelle. She was born to a Dutch shopkeeper, Adam Zelle, and his Javanese wife, Ante van der Meulen. She was forced to leave the school for teachers that she was attending, having sex with the headmaster. At age 18, she got married to a Dutch naval officer who was …

…She turned down the tradition blindfold, and facing her murderers, a twelve man firing squad, she blew them all a kiss. The order was giving to shoot and a bullet found her heard. "The greatest woman spy" was dead. Mata Hari's spy career was short lived and unproductive, however, her true talents, the reasons she was truly famous, were not because of what she did as a spy, but in exotic dancing and pleasing men.