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Definition: Mata Hari |
Mata HariNoun1. Dutch dancer who was executed by the French as a German spy in World War I (1876-1917). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Mata HariSynonym: Margarete Gertrud Zelle (n). (additional references) |
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Mata Hari (August 7, 1876 - October 15, 1917) was the stage name of Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, a Dutch exotic dancer who was accused, convicted and executed as a spy during World War I.
Mata Hari was born in Leeuwarden as a daughter to a Dutch businessman, while her mother was of Javanesenese descent. Around the turn of the twentieth century, after a failed attempt to become a teacher, a failed marriage, and two children, she moved to Paris. She posed as a princess from Java and became an exotic dancer, performing "Oriental-style" dances. Her stage name Mata Hari means "sun" or "eye of the dawn" in Malayan. She was also a courtesan who may have had affairs with many military officers and politicians.
In 1917 she was put on trial in France, accused of spying, as a double agent, for Germany and France and causing the deaths of thousands of soldiers in World War I. She was found guilty and executed by firing squad on . Rumor has it that during the execution, the squad members had to be blindfolded so as not to succumb to her charms. Another rumor claims she blew a kiss to her killers before the firing began.
Harlot, yes, but traitoress? Never! - attributed to Mata Hari, on trial
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Lyrics | You're a Mata Hari (Shake your Bon-Bon; performing artist: Ricky Martin) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Operación Mata Hari (1968) Der Fall Mata Hari (1966) La Figlia di Mata Hari (1954) Mata Hari (1931) Die rote Tänzerin Mata Hari (1927) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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mata hari | 288 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hamartia. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-h-i-m-r-t" | |
-2 letters: amrita, tamari, tarama, thairm, thiram. | |
-3 letters: airth, arhat, atria, ihram, maria, mirth, riata, tharm, tiara. | |
-4 letters: airt, amah, amia, amir, aria, atma, haar, hair, harm, hart, maar, mair, mart, math, raia, rami, rath, tahr, thir, tram, trim. | |
-5 letters: aah, aha, aim, air, ait, ama, ami, arm, art, ham, hat, him, hit, mar, mat, mir. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-h-i-m-r-t" | |
+1 letter: hamartias. | |
+2 letters: charismata. | |
+3 letters: amaranthine, matriarchal, prothalamia. | |
+4 letters: charlatanism, humanitarian, matriarchate. | |
+5 letters: charlatanisms, diaphragmatic, humanitarians, matriarchates, rhadamanthine. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 74 61 48 61 72 69 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01110100 01100001 00100000 01001000 01100001 01110010 01101001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a t a   H a r i |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0074 0061 0048 0061 0072 0069 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47678667242678475 |
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