Last week's Site Unseen about deafness prompted a call from David Evans, a reader who said that one of his heroes is J W Conforth, an Australian Nobel laureate in chemistry who had been deaf since his teens. They are different from the rest of us, and yet the same''.
Life also has links to poetry and to a site devoted to everyday heroes.
The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation profiles people who have worked to promote peace. Its heroes include many who also feature on the Life page, including Linus Pauling, the only person to ever win two undivided Nobel prizes, for chemistry in 1954 and peace in 1962. Australian Helen Caldicott, a dedicated anti-nuclear activist, and the Dalai Lama are profiled by the foundation as is Burmese democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. And if its fictional heroes you're interested in, the Net offers enormous scope. Any unauthorised use, copying or mirroring is prohibited.