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1917: Mata Hari, femme fatale
ExecutedToday.com ^
| October 15, 2008
| Headsman
Posted on 10/15/2020 5:28:16 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
At 5 a.m. this date in 1917, Margaretha Geertruida Zelle better known as Mata Hari was awoken at Saint-Lazare Prison to news that it was her last day on earth.
She died in a muddy drill field outside Paris, facing a firing squad as she had lived: self-possessed, mysterious, her eyes (she refused a blindfold) open.
For the oldest profession, it may be there is nothing truly original, nothing new under the sun. But Mata Hari thanks in no small part to her genuinely fatale end redefined it for the dawning age of mass visual media and tapped the power of sexual allure for a commercial century. She was already pushing 30 when she got into the exotic dance game, with a failed May-December marriage behind her from what a wag might call her first sexual bargain, to get out from under the thumb of her family and see the world. In Paris in the belle epoque, there were assuredly dancers younger, prettier. Margaretha, who here debuted the show name by which history would know here, surpassed them with showmanship....
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To: CheshireTheCat
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posted on
10/15/2020 5:32:01 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
To: CheshireTheCat
Of Course our side in conflicts also used such spies. Despite the moral implications it works.
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posted on
10/15/2020 5:33:53 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: CheshireTheCat
Her mugshot.............
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posted on
10/15/2020 5:35:21 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
To: Vaquero
The use Goes back to Bible times.................and probably even before............See ‘Delilah’...............
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posted on
10/15/2020 5:36:31 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
To: Red Badger
Her mugshot............."We'll get Garbo to play her!"
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posted on
10/15/2020 5:42:39 AM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
(Does the left like anything about America?)
To: Red Badger
Well, she wanted attention, brave at the end.
The execution sounds a bit rushed, she should have hired a better lawyer.
I’d do her, she seemed nice
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posted on
10/15/2020 5:53:10 AM PDT
by
baclava
To: Sans-Culotte
She didn’t talk, either................
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posted on
10/15/2020 5:58:49 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
To: Red Badger
Sad.
She was off her diet and had no makeup.
Once you get around that, she’s still not that bad looking.
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posted on
10/15/2020 6:10:41 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(uan)
To: Little Ray
That German food will do it to ya ever time!................
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posted on
10/15/2020 6:17:20 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
To: CheshireTheCat
in the Indonesian language matahari means ‘eye of the day’ or the ‘Sun’.
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posted on
10/15/2020 6:18:20 AM PDT
by
steveo
To: Red Badger
She looks like a young Sonia Sotomayor.
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posted on
10/15/2020 6:19:50 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: CheshireTheCat
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posted on
10/15/2020 6:22:49 AM PDT
by
BubbaBasher
("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
To: BubbaBasher; Lazamataz
Laz would hit it..................
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posted on
10/15/2020 6:24:52 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
To: Joe 6-pack
Well, as long as she could cook...................
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posted on
10/15/2020 6:25:17 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
To: CheshireTheCat
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posted on
10/15/2020 6:26:23 AM PDT
by
Bratch
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: Red Badger
It was French prison food!
She was shot by the French.
Probably something along the like of rough bread, a little sausage, and a little cheese.
To: Little Ray
That was her mugshot when she was arrested. Still eating high on the hog at that time...............
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posted on
10/15/2020 6:56:17 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Sine Q-Anon.....................very............)
To: Red Badger
The Lady Gaga of her time.
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posted on
10/15/2020 9:33:24 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: CheshireTheCat
Colorized
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10/15/2020 9:36:02 AM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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