Name that historical figure!

**Cookiegod** · June 07, 2019, 12:59 PM

Yes. your turn.

**General Brewster** · June 07, 2019, 04:45 PM

**paleologos** · June 11, 2019, 12:59 AM

Why is this one historically significant?

**General Brewster** · June 11, 2019, 06:42 AM

With her award list I name her that. You could ask the same about the previous pic I suppose.

**Lord Oda Nobunaga** · July 03, 2019, 09:32 AM

She is either a B List actor on some show or a writer that no one has ever heard about.
She doesn't look like a decorated combat vet or a politician, at all.

**General Brewster** · July 03, 2019, 10:41 AM

Second and she won a Whiting Award.

**Lord Oda Nobunaga** · July 03, 2019, 03:03 PM

After about 20 names on Wikipedia... this is a writer called Catherine Lacey. I don't think anyone would have gotten this.

I actually had to Google the name as well, to see if they were the same person in the two pictures.

**General Brewster** · July 03, 2019, 06:16 PM

Ding ding ding.

You never cease to disappoint. Actually found her when researching the previous dude.

**Lord Oda Nobunaga** · July 03, 2019, 10:06 PM

After the clues it wasn't that hard. Just had to look for a list of people with the Whiting Award.

Who is the guy on the left here?

**Cookiegod** · July 04, 2019, 02:07 AM

Right is Pablo Escobar; left is el Chapo.

**Lord Oda Nobunaga** · July 04, 2019, 01:19 PM

Incorrect.

Hint: The guy on the right is Pablo Escobar.

**Abdülmecid I** · July 04, 2019, 01:40 PM

Not sure if true, but, according to the Business Insider, he's John Jairo Velásquez, nicknamed Popeye and a professional assassin of Escobar's drug cartel.

**Lord Oda Nobunaga** · July 05, 2019, 11:05 AM

Yes, he is probably the most prolific hitman in all of South America. Worked as Pablo's executioner until the very end (he actually was in charge of all assassination missions). He even has a presence on social media after he got out of jail for good conduct. At one point predicting that El Chapo would be caught extremely quickly due to satellite technology and the CIA's ability to intercept anyone's cell phone.

His alias was Popeye because he had a very large chin, so they said he looked like Popeye. He was actually middle class and had no particular need for money, but he got bored of being in the Colombian navy. Probably explains why he was so good at shooting people.

**Abdülmecid I** · July 05, 2019, 11:51 AM

Lovely chap. Next one is another adorable gentleman from a place not particularly far away from Colombia. His career is the dream of every academic wishing to meddle in politics:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

**Muizer** · July 05, 2019, 03:08 PM

José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia

**Lord Oda Nobunaga** · July 05, 2019, 06:18 PM

The image was very familiar.
Too bad just about everyone completely misrepresents this guy's career. All the narratives are wrong. I suspect this guy was just making things up as he went along because he had no idea what he was doing.

**Abdülmecid I** · July 06, 2019, 06:16 AM

Dr. Francia is the correct answer! A very talented statesman and one of the few original leaders of the young South-American democracies that managed to survive in his supreme position. Francia initiated the long tradition of Paraguay in isolationism and authoritarianism, from Solano Lopez to Strössner, whose traces can be detected even today.