Jonathan Yardley - Jonathan Yardley. By Pat Shipman Morrow. 450 pp. $25.95 These days Mata Hari's name probably pops up most frequently in crossword puzzles, where solvers come across clues such as "Spy Mata" or "Infamous Hari" or, for the full eight letters, "Executed WWI spy. " Her name has been reduced to one of those essentially useless bits of information with which the modern mind is cluttered. That may be true of most people who were in the headlines nearly a century ago, but in her case it's a pity, because her life's story is a humdinger and because the charge that sent her before the firing squad and into popular lore -- that she actively and effectively spied for Germany -- almost certainly was false. Despite the relative obscurity into which she has fallen, her story has been told innumerable times and continues to attract biographers.
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MyArmoury.com. Exhibition. Old Style and New Style dates - encyclopedia article about Old Style and New Style dates. Excerpt of the cover page of a print of the Treaty of Lübeck (1629), with the Gregorian day (22) directly above the Julian (12), both before the name of the month, May. The treaty was concluded between Roman Catholic parties, who had already adopted the Gregorian calendar, and Protestant parties, who had not. Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) are used in English-language historical studies to indicate either that the start of the Julian year has been adjusted to start on 1 January (N.S.) even though documents written at the time use a different start of year (O.S.), or that a date conforms to the Julian calendar (O.S.), formerly in use in many countries, rather than the Gregorian (N.S.).[1][2][3][4] Differences between the start of the year When recording British history it is usual to use the dates recorded at the time of the event with the year adjusted to start on the first of January.
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