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Mata Hari reclines on her side in elaborate, patterned costume with jewelry and headpiece, gazing toward the camera in an undated black-and-white photograph. A heroine of the American Revolution Belle Boyd Harriet Tubman Sarah Edmonds Mata Hari, c. 1905 Noor Inayat Khan, 1934 Ethel Rosenberg
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Mata Hari
Mata Hari wearing a Javanese-inspired costume.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
A heroine of the American Revolution
Lydia Barrington Darragh.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (file no. LC-USZ62-53578)
Belle Boyd
Known as “La Belle Rebelle,” Boyd spied for the Confederacy during the American Civil...
Brady-Handy Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC BH 82 4864A)
Harriet Tubman
American abolitionist Harriet Tubman, c. 1900.
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Sarah Edmonds
Using both male and female disguises, Sarah Edmonds served as a Union soldier during...
Bettmann Archive/Getty Images
Mata Hari, c. 1905
Though she was accused of espionage activities against France in 1917, later reports...
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Noor Inayat Khan, 1934
At the age of 20, Noor Inayat Khan sits in the dunes near The Hague, Netherlands.
Photograph courtesy of the Nekbakht Foundation, www.nekbakhtfoundation.org
Ethel Rosenberg
Mugshots of Ethel Rosenberg after her arrest, August 1950.
NARA