Here is a list of the deadly women spies who have made it into the history books.
Mata Hari:
The first name that comes to your mind when you mention women spies. Mata Hari was born as Margaret Gertrude Zelle.
Mata Hari who was born in Holland and later she married a Dutch army officer. She later became a dancer and became immensely popular in Paris. During the First World War she shot to the limelight as a courtesan to many high-ranking officials in the German army..She masqueraded as an Indian princess to gain access to army officials in Paris.
There are conflicting reports about her allegiance during the war with some reports claiming her to be working for the Germans and others saying she was a French agent. She was tried in France in February 1917 and executed on October 15.
Virginia Hall:
Also known as Marie Monin aka the Limping Lady, she started as a consular service clerk at the American Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, she was considered to be one of the deadliest spies in the Second World War.
Hall later joined the British Special Operations Executive and was posted to France. During this time the Gestapo chief regarded her as the most dangerous person in France.
Hall incidentally had suffered an unfortunate accident where she shot herself in the foot and had to use a prosthetic limb. In spite of her handicap, she proved to be a successful agent and was honoured by the British and the French after the war.
Belle Boyd:
Known as the Cleopatra of the secession, she was a spy during the American Civil War. She worked for the Confederate President, Jefferson Davis and operated out of her father’s hotel in Virginia. She carried letters for Davis to England.
She used her charming ways to become a major attraction in the social circles in Washington which helped her get information. During one of her missions in 1864 she was asked to carry a letter to England but was captured by the Union Navy. However the officer in charge fell in love with her and let her escape.
Boyd was caught at least 30 times by the Union forces during the American Civil war.
1. Kim Ung-Yong: Attended University at age 4, Ph.D at age 15; world’s highest IQ
This Korean super-genius was born in 1962 and might just be the smartest guy alive today (he’s recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as having the highest IQ of anyone on the planet). By the age of four he was already able to read in Japanese, Korean, German, and English. At his fifth birthday, he solved complicated differential and integral calculus problems. Later, on Japanese television, he demonstrated his proficiency in Chinese, Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog, German, English, Japanese, and Korean. Kim was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records under “Highest IQ”; the book estimated the boy’s score at over 210.
Kim was a guest student of physics at Hanyang University from the age of 3 until he was 6. At the age of 7 he was invited to America by NASA. He finished his university studies, eventually getting a Ph.D. in physics at Colorado State University before he was 15. In 1974, during his university studies, he began his research work at NASA and continued this work until his return to Korea in 1978 where he decided to switch from physics to civil engineering and eventually received a doctorate in that field. Kim was offered the chance to study at the most prestigious universities in Korea , but instead chose to attend a provincial university. As of 2007 he also serves as adjunct faculty at Chungbuk National University .
2. Gregory Smith: Nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize at age 12
Born in 1990, Gregory Smith could read at age two and had enrolled in university at 10. But “genius” is only one half of the Greg Smith story. When not voraciously learning, this young man travels the globe as a peace and children’s rights activist.
He is the founder of International Youth Advocates, an organization that promotes principles of peace and understanding among young people throughout the world. He has met with Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev and spoke in front of the UN. For these and other humanitarian and advocacy efforts, Smith has been nominated four times for a Nobel Peace Prize. His latest achievement? He just got his driver license.
3. Akrit Jaswal: The Seven Year-Old Surgeon
Akrit Jaswal is a young Indian who has been called “the world’s smartest boy” and it’s easy to see why. His IQ is 146 and is considered the smartest person his age in India —a country of more than a billion people.
Akrit came to public attention when in 2000 he performed his first medical procedure at his family home. He was seven. His patient — a local girl who could not afford a doctor — was eight. Her hand had been burnt in a fire, causing her fingers to close into a tight fist that wouldn’t open. Akrit had no formal medical training and no experience of surgery, yet he managed to free her fingers and she was able to use her hand again.
He focused his phenomenal intelligence on medicine and at the age of twelve he claimed to be on the verge of discovering a cure for cancer. He is now studying for a science degree at Chandigarh College and is the youngest student ever accepted by an Indian University .
Name: Damien, Father
Birth Date: January 3, 1840
Death Date: April 15, 1889
Place of Birth: Tremeloo, Belgium
Place of Death: Molokai, Hawaii, United States
Nationality: Belgian
Gender: Male
Occupations: missionary, priest
Father Damien is the religious name of Joseph de Veuster, ss.cc. He lived from January 3, 1840 to April 15, 1888. He was a Roman Catholic missionary of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary who sacrificed his life in service to the lepers of Kalaupapa on the island of Molokai in Hawaii. He is the patron of lepers, outcasts, HIV/AIDS and the State of Hawaii. He is memorialized in bronze in the U.S. Capitol Statuary Hall, one of two statues submitted by Hawaii.
» Read more: Father Damien
Two Choices
What would you do?….you make the choice. Don’t look for a punch line, there isn’t one. Read it anyway.
My question is: Would you have made the same choice?
At a fund raising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended.
After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question:
‘When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does, is done with perfection.
Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do.
He cannot understand things as other children do.
Where is the natural order of things in my son?’
The audience was stilled by the query.
The father continued. ‘I believe that when a child like Shay, who was mentally and physically disabled comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people treat that child.’
Then he told the following story: » Read more: A senti story… quite touching
Thought 1
When we are born, our mothers get the compliments and the flowers.
When we are married, our brides get the presents and the publicity.
When we die, our widows get the life insurance.
What do women want to be liberated from?
Thought 2
The average man’s life consists of :
Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going,
Forty years of having his wife ask the same question;
And at the end, the mourners wondering too.
» Read more: Thought about men
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