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Topic: Gertrud Margarete Zelle


  
  NOVA Online | Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies | Mata Hari
Margarete Gertrud Zelle, known to posterity by her alias, Mata Hari, is one of the most infamous spies of the 20th century.
By all accounts, the Dutch-born Zelle was not a particularly successful spy, yet her story embodies all the elements -- daring, exoticism, and a chameleonic persona -- that make the best espionage cases so alluring to the human imagination.
Sometime later, Zelle was reincarnated in Paris as Mata Hari, a high-class exotic dancer purportedly of Hindu birth.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/venona/dece_hari.html   (544 words)

  
 Online edition of Sunday Observer - Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Margarete Gertrud Zelle, better known as Mata Hari, is regarded as one of the most infamous spies of the 20th century.
However, some modern historians believe that Margarete wasn't a spy at all, but was duped and trapped by her "friends" as well as her enemies during World War I, to become a scapegoat.
Abandoning the family to find work elsewhere, his wife also died shortly thereafter and Margarete and her three brothers were split up amongst relatives.
www.sundayobserver.lk /2005/08/21/fea16.html   (1075 words)

  
 The First Great Brothers' War: World War One
Finally the war of attrition grew too high: the German submarine losses, in percentage terms, started to outstrip the Allied shipping losses, and the campaign was gradually abandoned.
In 1917, a Dutch woman by name of Gertrud Margarete Zelle was arrested by the French police in Paris.
At the time she was working as an erotic dancer using the stage name of Mata Hari.
www.white-history.com /hwr59i.htm   (3084 words)

  
 Theatre Puget Sound Message Boards: Invisible ink: Destiny and the Dance of Mata Hari at OTB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
He is struck by how much Monica resembles a photograph of Mata Hari, and he follows her around as she studies the furnishings that have been left in the room and later visits a museum in nearby Leeuwarden, the home town of Gertrud Margarete Zelle (Mata Hari's Dutch birth name).
He becomes her husband, a Briton named MacLeod who was serving in the Dutch army in Java; as Lady MacLeod, Gertrud follows him and lives there from 1897-1902.
By 1904 she is divorced and living in Paris, where she assumes the persona of a Javanese girl and performs exotic dances to wide acclaim.
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 Margarete Gertrud Zelle - English-French Dictionary - WordReference.com
We found no French translation for 'Margarete Gertrud Zelle' in our English to French Dictionary.
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 Books | Bring me sushi...
More ambitious but shakier is The Red Dancer by Richard Skinner, a fictionalised life of Mata Hari that tentatively, delicately and poignantly fills in the person behind the myth.
Mata Hari starts out as Gertrud Margarete Zelle, a Dutch teenager who marries a Dutch army officer (inexplicably named MacLeod).
He is stationed in Java, where he soon dotes on a son and daughter born to them and is disgusted by Gerda's promiscuous flirtation, though he never stops his own womanising.
books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4213697-99930,00.html   (1252 words)

  
 Gertrud Seele - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Gertrud Seele - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Schoenberg also began painting during these years and exhibited his work with a group of artists in the circle of the Russian painter Wassily...
Could you get a free ride to college?
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=Gertrud+Seele   (95 words)

  
 Mata Hari
Mata Hari, professional name of Gertrud Margarete Zelle (1876-1917), Dutch courtesan and
Born in Leeuwarden and educated in a convent,
This page created in celebration of Women's History Month, March 2001
fanzone50.com /Tales/MataHari.html   (173 words)

  
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ANSWER: [Cerberus] 12) What Mozart opera includes the famous "Queen of the Night" aria?
ANSWER: [The Magic Flute] ([Die Zauberflote]) 13) Give the most famous pseudonym of Gertrud Margarete Zelle, a courtesan and alleged German spy who was executed in 1917.
ANSWER: [Mata Hari] 14) What Greek god was responsible for conducting the dead to the underworld?
www.fayar.net /east/teacher.web/Math/young/Quiz/QBSRHigh03/Match10.doc   (2023 words)

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