&415/ Around the World: Who Was Mata Hari?

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We were passing Mata Hari Bar in Basel last Friday and Simon Lösing asked me how creative people would be to come up with names like that.

My answer was: Mata Hari? She was that exotic woman in Germany before WWII. She was dancing in night clubs and she was a spy of some sort. Do not remember exactly for which side ...

My colleagues' answer: What stuff are you smoking, man? An exotic courtesan in Germany? Early 1900s? No way.

A quick look at Wikipedia brought it up - Philipp Ebneter to the rescue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mata_Hari.

What I got wrong: She was before WWI - not II. Amazing.

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Thnx!

Grtz from Holland ;)

Before WWI or even Rudi Carell, Dutch was exotic!

And she was Dutch instead of exotic ;)

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