Nerd Pride Radio

Proceed, Mike

Y'all should read up on her. A really fascinating person.

Yeah- I don’t know who that is.

was born in Xalapa, Veracruz, Nueva España (New Spain), on 21 February 1794. He was from a respected Spanish colonial family; he and his parents belonged to the elite criollo racial group of American-born Spaniards. His father was a royal army officer perpetually in debt, and served for a time as a sub-delegate for the Gulf Coast Spanish province of Veracruz. However, his parents were wealthy enough to send him to school.

Pablo Picasso

Historians and many Mexicans also rank him as perhaps the principal inhabitant even today of Mexico's pantheon of "those who failed the nation."

Zorro?

Santa Anna - who funnily enough is mentioned but does not feature in the good Zorro movie from the 90's

Dammit Santa Anna was my guess.

Pancho Villa

Santa Anna!!!!

Go Caz!

He wrote such novels in the idiom of the politically conservative hack writer, but in reality he had a liberal conscience and a sharp awareness of the lack of literary values in so much of the SF he was parodying.

John Scalzi

They collaborated on a series of anthology projects and did much in the 1970s to raise the standards of criticism in the field, including institution of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel

Ray Bradbury

He was an advocate of Esperanto, claiming to "write and speak it with an automatic ease I have never been able to capture in any language other than my native English"; he learned it, according to Christopher Priest, out of boredom during military service.

Robert Heinlein

After finishing Forest Hills High School in 1943, _______ was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II as a gunsight technician and as a gunnery instructor.

L. Ron Hubbard