Mata Hari and David Petraeus
This is a card game. Politics sets the rules.
Margaretha Zelle, born in the Netherlands in 1876, had studied to become a kindergarten teacher; but there was trouble in her first year of teaching so she moved on.
She replied to a newspaper advertisement. A Dutch military officer stationed in Indonesia was looking for a wife.
Soon, Margaretha found herself living on the island of Java, married to an…
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