The Queue: Historical figure

Apparently when someone mentions a pop star in a Queue intro, we get 200 comments in which people pretend they're too cool to know about said pop star or talk about how much they hate said pop star, rather than questions about World of Warcraft. So I'm gonna go ahead and nip that trend right in the bud by giving you the polar opposite of that intro.
Here's a historical figure you probably can't name, or if you can name him, you don't know anything about him besides his name and his title. If you do, good for you. I don't care. Ask me World of Warcraft questions.
Mary asked:
Will the Valentine's Day bosses be dropping Cata-level epics this year, or will it still be the same old Wrath stuff?
Probably not epics, but there are some level 85 blues on Wowhead that look like they'll be dropping off of the Love is in the Air bosses.
Arcsire asked:
So I was questing through Uldum the other day, and something struck me as odd. In on of the first few cutscenes in the zone, you witness a djinn (whose name escapes me) remove the Curse of Flesh from the Neferset. Now, unless I'm missing something, aren't the djinn servants of Al'Akir, and by extension of the Old Gods? Why would the Old Gods want any part of their army to be less vulnerable to their corruption?
Well, they can't be that much less vulnerable -- after all, they got afflicted by the curse in the first place, didn't they? Besides, stone catdudes are much more durable than fleshy catdudes.
Daan.leijen asked:
Does anyone have a clue as to where Ghostcrawler wandered off to? Haven't seen him post in days.
It's been much longer than days. The developers have been largely hands off where the new forums are concerned; GC hasn't really posted all since the changeover. For a while, it seemed like he would be doing regular blogs, like the ones he did about healing and tanking, but after how poorly received his "Wow! Dungeons are Hard!" post was, I'm suspecting it'll be a while before we hear from him again. I'd like to be proven wrong, though.
Chris asked:
With all the class changes coming in Patch 4.0.6, are the talent points getting reset for all classes?
Unlikely. In previous patches, only classes with extensive talent reworks got their talent points reset. It doesn't appear that there are enough fundamental changes for most classes to warrant resets.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 11)
Adam Holisky Feb 4th 2011 10:06AM
Zachary Taylor.
Siorra Feb 4th 2011 11:06AM
Adam Holisky, TIME TRAVELLER.
MattKrotzer Feb 4th 2011 11:07AM
James Taylor
Nathanyel Feb 4th 2011 11:07AM
Damn, Adam beat me to it *whistle*
Ok, I'm not American anyway, so I'm forgiven if I didn't know him, but I could kinda tell from the style of the painting and the recognizable facial features that he was probably of British descent, but likely a US figure, and I didn't think that because you guys are North-Americans ;) I assumed your pool of historical figures to choose from would not be limited to US/Canadian ones ;)
ThatOneGuy Feb 4th 2011 11:08AM
Ugh, such a fail guy. Warmonger after Andrew Jackson's own heart, he was.
Sedna Feb 4th 2011 11:08AM
Whigs are all such posers. Post a real president like Van Buren.
Tieamat Feb 4th 2011 11:09AM
I don't know who that is, but I hate them.
lazearian Feb 4th 2011 11:09AM
Katy Perry????
ThatOneGuy Feb 4th 2011 11:10AM
Naw, Grover Cleveland is one of the best presidents of the 1800's, imho. He would probably fit the playbill as a libertarian today.
Sylvaine Feb 4th 2011 11:13AM
President in the mid 1800's, last president to own slaves while in the white house. Also part of the whig party.
I would be a bad high school history tutor if i didnt at least know a tiny bit about the guy...
CaryEverett Feb 4th 2011 11:24AM
I know my brother was named after Zachary Taylor.
Kinda makes him easy to recognize :P
Ganatola Feb 4th 2011 11:46AM
@ThatOneGuy
I kind of got a "Yo, Sacco. I'mma let you finish, but Grovah Cleveland was one of the best presidents of all time!" vibe from your post. Which I wholly agree to. Go Grover!
Also @ Sedna
Free Soil Party FTW! What ever happened to those guys!?
jrblackyear Feb 4th 2011 12:00PM
I didn't think we would run into one another so soon, but seeing as The Queue is a daily publication, I can't say I'm surprised.
After spending what seemed like endless minutes of research using the renowned search engine, Google, I have come to the conclusion that, just as Siorra suggested, you are a Time Traveller.
Apparently, that involves being able to "traverse" the expanse of "time" in what one could call a fancy, far-too-gilded and overly-complicated machine. My thoughts first arrived on a gold-plated slot machine/Maytag clothes dryer hybrid, with a penny-farthing seat haphazardly duct-taped to the lint compartment. But no, you're obviously far too cunning for such a design...
As you surely can tell, this one-sided banter with you has blossomed into my lone source of joy in the cold December of my days. Yes, that may be pitiful and slightly disturbing. Does it render my efforts for naught? Slightly, but not by nearly enough. Thus, I trudge onward in hopes that my quest shall lead me to victory. One day, sir, one day.
(cutaia) Feb 4th 2011 12:31PM
Screw Zachary Taylor. That guy uses too much autotune.
DeathPaladin Feb 4th 2011 12:33PM
Sacco certainly missed an opportunity here. The Queue works in themes. So the proper response to Katy Perry being in the last Queue was to make today's Queue lead with a picture of Commodore Matthew Perry (the US Naval officer credited with opening Japan to trade with the West) or his brother Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (most famous for defeating a British naval force in Lake Erie during the War of 1812).
Jack Mynock Feb 4th 2011 12:50PM
General during Mecican-American war. 2nd president to die in office. Died after eating cherries and chilled milk. Semi-popular theory is that he was actually poisoned with arsenic, but no real evidence has ever been found.
Drahken Feb 4th 2011 1:03PM
Damn. I thought it was James K. Polk. Now I feel dumb.
For the record, the best president was Theodore Roosevelt. And anyone who says otherwise hates America. Dude shrugged off being shot in the chest, wrestled mountain lions, plus this: http://media.gamespy.com/columns/image/article/110/1109681/making-games-cinematic-in-ways-that-actually-matter-20100730021249713.jpg
I like Teddy's pepper sauce.
Khayman Feb 4th 2011 1:36PM
Correct me if im wrong. Didn't Zachery Taylor die of pneumonia after giving a 5 hour inaugural address in the freezing January rain?
DeathPaladin Feb 4th 2011 2:27PM
You are thinking of William Henry Harrison, Khayman. Completely different post-Washington pre-Lincoln President that gets maybe a paragraph in US History textbooks.
Swift1 Feb 4th 2011 2:35PM
You're thinking of William Henry Harrison, Khayman. That was the other war hero Whig who got elected President and then died shortly into his term allowing his vice president to run the party into the ground by completely changing the platform. After Andrew Jackson was president, Whigs decided to say, "screw you Henry Clay, we only nominate war heroes."