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Mata Hari and some other Women Spies

Mata Hari and some other Women Spies

Margaretha Geertruida Zelle (1876 – 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer who was convicted of being a spy and executed by firing squad in France during the first World War.Sir Basil Home Thomson, KCB (1861 – 1939)...

The Great Bank Forgery

The Great Bank Forgery

In March 1873 Great Britain was rocked by the forgery case of the century, perpetrated against no less than the Bank of England. Four criminal brains took on the entire financial system...and would have got away with it, too, had it not been for one...