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An amazing shot of the Kazan Cathedral's dome. | St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Mata Hari was Margaretha Geertruida "Grietje" Zelle (7 August 1876 – 15 October 1917) Dutch exotic dancer who was shot by the French as a spy on 15 October 1917. Mata Hari's name has since become synonymous with espionage, although it remains by no means clear that she was guilty of the spying charges for which she charged. Still unclear today are the circumstances around her alleged spying activities. It was said that while in The Hague in 1916 she was offered cash by a German consul for information obtained on her next visit to France. Indeed, Mata Hari admitted she had passed old, outdated information to a German intelligence officer when later interrogated by the French intelligence service. Mata Hari herself claimed she had been paid to act as a French spy in Belgium (then occupied by German forces), although she had neglected to inform her French spymasters of her prior arrangement with the German consul. She was, it seemed, a double agent, if a not very successful one. It appears (the details are vague) that British intelligence picked up details of Mata Hari's arrangements with the German consul and passed these to their French counterparts. She was consequently arrested by the French on 13 February 1917 in Paris She was put on trial, accused of spying for Germany and consequently causing the deaths of at least 50,000 soldiers. Following imprisonment she was tried by a military court on 24-25 July 1917 and sentenced to death by a firing squad.