History, as well as present-day storybooks, is filled with illustrations of those wonderful people who were either counted as “zero” — not worthy to stand up and be counted — or who started their climb to “success” in life at point “zero”, with nothing to help them on (save God’s grace), and even nobody to encourage them on. But each of them rose to become a “hero” in his or her own way, in his or her own world. The gallery of “heroes” (and “heroines”) who are presented in this book are ordinary people, all