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The Squidoo SuperHero Project Lens 

Squidoo SuperHero Project

The goal of the Squidoo SuperHero Project is to create 5 lenses for charity about heroes who have inspired you, mentored you, changed the way you see the world, or just made you smile. The SuperHero Project is the brainchild of Anne Reidy, Non-Profi...

The Superhero Lens on Bono 

Bono (Paul David Hewson)

For charming, bulling and morally blackmailed the leaders of the world's richest countries into forgiving $40 billion in debt owed by the poorest, Bono was named Person of the Year by Time Magazine in 2005. For his ability to make people listen and...

The First Two Superhero Lenses 

Alice Waters - Chef, Entrepreneur, Teacher

Alice Waters is the Executive Chef and Owner of the restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California. Waters is known as a Food Revolutionary. In creating Chez Panisse in 1971 she emphasized eating what is in season because food at it's freshest peak...

Jacqueline Novogratz

As part of her Squidoo Superheroes project for charity, Anne Reidy asked me to profile someone who inspires, who leads, who makes a difference. This was a surprisingly easy choice. The Acumen Fund is patient capital. They invest money in companies r...

The Original SuperHero - SuperMan, Christopher Reeve 

Christopher Reeve - Superman, SuperHero & Super Human Being

Anyone around in 1978 remembers Christopher Reeve emerging on the film screen as the ultimate Superman and as a SuperHero. Yet for me, I think his true SuperHero status happened years later. I would like to introduce my SuperHeroes...Christopher Reev...

SuperHero Nobel Laureates Featured Lenses 

Al Gore - Superhero

Apparently there was a greater mission in life for Al Gore than becoming President in 2000. Now as Nobel Peace Prize winner, Academy Award winner, bestselling author, activist and political icon, Al Gore has become one of the most respected and influ...

The Elders - The Global Elders

The idea for the Global elders started in 1999 with a conversation between Peter Gabriel and Richard Branson. Their idea of The Elders was to create a new gathering of world leaders who will come together to guide and support our "global village." F...

Wangari Maathai

...but the Superhero of millions of Africans. She is the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, and she's from my home. Kenya. She is an environmentalist, an author, a women's rights activist, and a parliamentarian. Since winning the N...

SuperHero Family Member Featured Lenses 

Melba Marcrum is a hero to young children

While she is my mother, that isn't the reason she is a hero (although that has been a big job). Melba Marcrum has been working and advocating for young children in East Nashville for more than 20 years.

My Wife - My Superhero!

We met online, in January of 2006. In May, we moved together into a new Austin, Texas apartment. In August, I married my wife and my superhero at a remote fishing lodge in Alaska. Soon, we'll celebrate our second anniversary. In this lens I will tel...

Sonny Sikes -- My Grandpa, My Hero!

Introducing my superhero... L.N. "Sonny" Sikes is one of the pioneers of the National College Rodeo Association. He is one of the most renown collegiate rodeo coaches (Sam Houston State University) to ever grace the sport. He has taught and mentored...

My Parents - My Superheroes!

My parents - Josef Thiemermann and Johanna Nowak - lived through some of the most difficult years in European history. They've succeeded against seemingly insurmountable odds - from the Russian front line in WWII, to famine and despair in the Austria...

Julia Nagy -- My Grandmother, Namesake and Superhero

Thinking about the 'superheroes' in my life, the very first person that comes to mind is my grandmother! First of all, my grandmother was my namesake -- I was named in honor of my grandmother! And, I can't think of a day that goes by that I do NOT th...

SuperHero Lensmaster Featured Lens 

Margaret Schaut

Margaret is one of the first lensmaster on Squidoo that came to my assistance and supported my lens. She is a good friend and well respected in the Squidoo community. She is hard working and have created many top lens. She has won awards and have bee...

Margaret Schaut - Superhero!

Stan Lee, the legendary creator of Spider Man, describes the genuine qualities of a superhero - integrity, courage, self-sacrifice, and honesty. Using this expert list of human virtues and additional observations about my mentor and friend as my guid...

Superhero Giant Squid Featured Lens 

What We Are Looking for When We Choose New Giant Lensmasters

The Giant Squid Lensmasters are my superheroes because of all the hard work they put into their lenses. You see, having 50 Squidoo lenses made is NOT the only requirement for becoming a Giant Squid Lensmaster. We've raised the bar and we're only ac...

SuperHero Squidoo Featured Lens 

GramaBarb - My Superhero Grandma

You really want to know why? I know you do. She looks familiar, right? She is the Squidoo's very own GramaBarb. She's genuine, heartwarming and encouraging as a grandma. I'm so thankful that I had the chance to know her through her lenses and her bea...

Superhero Squidoo

Imagine you meet someone new. He/she is very kind and helpful, right from the beginning of your budding relationship. He gives you a number of free tools, free advice, and free personal tutors that enable you to express yourself creatively in ways yo...

SuperHero RockStar Featured Lenses 

Annie Lennox: Humanitarian & Hero!

I was 13 years old when I heard "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) for the first time. Needless to say I was hooked on the Eurythmics from that day forward. Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart revolutionized the world of music with their "synthpop" sound. M...

Bono (Paul David Hewson)

For charming, bulling and morally blackmailed the leaders of the world's richest countries into forgiving $40 billion in debt owed by the poorest, Bono was named Person of the Year by Time Magazine in 2005. For his ability to make people listen and...

Sir Elton John Is A Rock 'N Roll SuperHero

his music and life is an inspiration. I have always been a huge fan of Elton John's music. From "Daniel" to "Rocket Man" to "The One" his musical talent is astounding! However what I really admire about Elton John is his compassion for people like R...

Nikki Sixx Bass Player for Sixx A.M.

Nikki Sixx carries a bass guitar and a journal and pen! Nikki Sixx is the co-founder, bassist, and song writer for legendary rock band Motley Crue, and new and upcoming band Sixx A.M.! Nikki is a very busy man since cleaning up from his heroin addict...

SuperHero Featured Double Lenses 

Remembering Tim Russert

Tim Russert, Irish as the daisys which bloom on the Cliffs of Moher and one of America's leading political journalists, died at 58 on Friday, June 13, 2008. I'm not sure whether Tim was superstitious, but perhaps he was, many Irish are. Russert was...

Al Gore - Superhero

Apparently there was a greater mission in life for Al Gore than becoming President in 2000. Now as Nobel Peace Prize winner, Academy Award winner, bestselling author, activist and political icon, Al Gore has become one of the most respected and influ...

Comfortdoc's Featured Superhero Lenses 

Dr. Randy Pausch - A Superhero

Dr. Randy Pausch is a living inspiration. Diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer in 2006, he has gone on to show people how to continue *living* even after getting the diagnosis of a terminal illness. For his head-on, straight-forward, entertai...

The Elders - The Global Elders

The idea for the Global elders started in 1999 with a conversation between Peter Gabriel and Richard Branson. Their idea of The Elders was to create a new gathering of world leaders who will come together to guide and support our "global village." F...

Patricia Quigley and Susan Retik 9/11 Widows Live Beyond the 11th

Turning a tragedy into a tribute is one of the ways for survivors to keep going and and keep living after the traumatic loss of a loved one. Introducing my superheroes...Patricia Quigley and Susan Retik, two 9/11 widows on a heroic mission to overco...

Al Gore - Superhero

Apparently there was a greater mission in life for Al Gore than becoming President in 2000. Now as Nobel Peace Prize winner, Academy Award winner, bestselling author, activist and political icon, Al Gore has become one of the most respected and influ...

Marianne Williamson - Superhero, Spiritual Activist

Marianne Williamson is a best-selling author, lecturer, a Spiritual Activist and the Founder of the Peace Alliance, a citizen action organization representing a growing constituency for peace. For spearheading the Campaign for a Department of Peace...

More of Comfortdoc's Featured SuperHero Lenses 

Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono is perhaps best known as being the widow of Beatle legend, John Lennon, with whom she became synonymous with the expression "Give Peace a Chance." She has gone on after John's untimely death in 1980 to become one of the major Peace Activists...

Bono (Paul David Hewson)

For charming, bulling and morally blackmailed the leaders of the world's richest countries into forgiving $40 billion in debt owed by the poorest, Bono was named Person of the Year by Time Magazine in 2005. For his ability to make people listen and...

Mattie Stepanek

Mattie Stepanek wanted to be known as a poet, peacemaker and philosopher who played. Even though he had a rare form of muscular dystrophy, dysautonomic mitochondrial myopathy, Mattie was able to accomplish a lot in his short life. He was not limited...

Sadako Sasaki

Sadako Sasaki was only two years old when the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. At the age of 11, she was diagnosed with Leukemia, or the "Atomic Bomb Disease." Her courage in the face of her cancer and determination to fold 1,000 paper crane...

Christopher Reeve - Superman, SuperHero & Super Human Being

Anyone around in 1978 remembers Christopher Reeve emerging on the film screen as the ultimate Superman and as a SuperHero. Yet for me, I think his true SuperHero status happened years later. I would like to introduce my SuperHeroes...Christopher Reev...

More of Comfortdoc's Featured SuperHero Lenses 

Amy Jaffe Barzach

Amy Jaffe Barzach is the founder of Boundless Playgrounds, an organization created to develop barrier-free, developmentally advantageous playgrounds. After the death of her son Jonathan from a rare condition, Amy found a way to cope with the grief o...

The Squidoo SuperHero Group Headquarters

The Squidoo SuperHero Group was created to highlight lenses made as part of the SuperHero Project in which lensmasters are challenged to create 5 lenses for charity about heroes who have inspired you, mentored you, changed the way you see the world,...

Squidoo SuperHero Project

The goal of the Squidoo SuperHero Project is to create 5 lenses for charity about heroes who have inspired you, mentored you, changed the way you see the world, or just made you smile. The SuperHero Project is the brainchild of Anne Reidy, Non-Profi...

BFuniv.com's Featured Superhero Lenses 

Ayn Rand - your invitation to independent thought

Of course you disagree with some of what Ayn Rand wrote or spoke. If you didn't, you would be unnecessary. Unless your natural joy of discovery was destroyed by compulsory schooling, you will still find a great deal in Rand's works to challenge you...

Dr. Margarita Pereyda - inspiring achievement and giving

Dr. Pereyda is originally from Arizona, where she grew up within an impoverished community that did not expect students to succeed. However, a few exceptional teachers encouraged Margarita. The tenth of eleven children, she was the only one to gradua...

William Penn - developing freedom in a new world

Where did the American ideals of respect for individual liberty and religious freedom first gain legally binding expression? A fair guess would be from the quill pen of William Penn. Having received land in America as payment of a debt by the Britis...

Og Mandino - the greatest salesman in the world

Og Mandino authored nineteen books, including The Greatest Salesman In the World. Og's books have sold more than 50 million copies, and have been translated into twenty five languages, at last count. But Og Mandino was foremost a humble and truly...

Fooled By Randomness - a review of the author; Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb exposes the myths of certainty that lurk in the darkness of finance, living, and economics. And most important - he does it without dragging you through silly math based models. Most professors handle uncertainty by pretending...

Jeffwend's Featured SuperHero Lenses 

Pat Tillman

Introducing my superhero... Pat Tillman (1976-2004) Pat Tillman was always an excellent athlete and leader. He led his high school to the Central Coast Division I Football Championship. Later, he went on to Arizona State University on a football sc...

Howard Schiffer

Introducing my superhero... Howard Schiffer has always been passionate about nutrition. For over 30 years he has helped to develop and sell a number of health food items. In 1994, his priorities changed when Southern California was struck by the No...

ChefKeem's Featured SuperHero Lenses 

My Wife - My Superhero!

We met online, in January of 2006. In May, we moved together into a new Austin, Texas apartment. In August, I married my wife and my superhero at a remote fishing lodge in Alaska. Soon, we'll celebrate our second anniversary. In this lens I will tel...

Margaret Schaut - Superhero!

Stan Lee, the legendary creator of Spider Man, describes the genuine qualities of a superhero - integrity, courage, self-sacrifice, and honesty. Using this expert list of human virtues and additional observations about my mentor and friend as my guid...

The Anonymous Alcoholic - A Superhero

We are told that most alcoholics never make it into recovery. They die prematurely - in car accidents, from liver and heart diseases, or a variety of other related causes. Of those who find the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous or similar institutions of...

Superhero Squidoo

Imagine you meet someone new. He/she is very kind and helpful, right from the beginning of your budding relationship. He gives you a number of free tools, free advice, and free personal tutors that enable you to express yourself creatively in ways yo...

My Parents - My Superheroes!

My parents - Josef Thiemermann and Johanna Nowak - lived through some of the most difficult years in European history. They've succeeded against seemingly insurmountable odds - from the Russian front line in WWII, to famine and despair in the Austria...

Bdkz Featured SuperHero Lenses 

Annie Lennox: Humanitarian & Hero!

I was 13 years old when I heard "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) for the first time. Needless to say I was hooked on the Eurythmics from that day forward. Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart revolutionized the world of music with their "synthpop" sound. M...

Sir Elton John Is A Rock 'N Roll SuperHero

his music and life is an inspiration. I have always been a huge fan of Elton John's music. From "Daniel" to "Rocket Man" to "The One" his musical talent is astounding! However what I really admire about Elton John is his compassion for people like R...

Julie Jaguar's Featured SuperHero Lenses 

Anne Frank -- A True Superhero

It is incomprehensible to imagine what Anne Frank endured in her young and short life nor is it possible to comprehend the terror that her family experienced. To me Anne Frank is without a doubt a true superhero of immeasurable proportions.

Julia Nagy -- My Grandmother, Namesake and Superhero

Thinking about the 'superheroes' in my life, the very first person that comes to mind is my grandmother! First of all, my grandmother was my namesake -- I was named in honor of my grandmother! And, I can't think of a day that goes by that I do NOT th...

Helen Keller -- A True Superhero

I don't know about you, but Helen Keller faced some incredible obstacles in her young life. Not only did she overcome these obstacles, but she went on to become an accomplished, unique, and inspiring individual. How do I know Helen Keller? Well, like...

Gloria Steinem -- A Feminist Superhero

Is it too bold a statement to make that WE GIRLS have this feminist superhero Gloria Steinem to thank for being able to SQUIDOO? To be able to blog and twitter? It's been over 40 years since her 1962 Esquire magazine article about women being f...

My Teachers Who Mentored Me :: Mr. Duval, Ms. Hartford, Mrs. LeMasters, Ms. Bickimer -- My Superheroes

Do you know that in the United States, each state determines the requirements for getting a license to teach in public schools? And, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there are 1.4 million elementary school teachers, 600,000 middle school...

Dcgrrl Featured SuperHero Lenses 

Squiduser's Featured SuperHero Lenses 

Elsha Stockseth

Elsha Stockseth, U2 fan and humanitarian gives her heart and art to help children in Africa.

Dr. Tim Evans, D.D.S. and Humanitarian

Dr. Timothy Evans is a dentist, but his most remarkable accomplishments go beyond merely fixing teeth. Dr. Timothy Evans is heavily involved in humanitarian aid. In fact, for over a quarter of a century, Dr. Evans has traveled, to South America and A...

Kevin Bardsley: Facing Adversity, Helping Others

Kevin Bardsley, known simply as The Dad, is the 2007 Readers Digest Hero of the Year. His heroism began by accident, when his 12-year-old son, Garrett, went missing during a Boy Scout camping trip in Utah's Uinta Mountains in August 2004. Garrett's b...

Carolyn Dailey - CEO and President of ASCEND, A Humanitarian Alliance

Carolyn Grow Dailey is a servant-leader, scholar, social entrepreneur, humanitarian, wife, mother, teacher and seasoned executive with 30 years experience in management and fundraising. Carolyn has touched thousands through her humanitarian efforts a...

Robert Workman, CEO for Tifie Humanitarian

Robert Workman is nationally recognized for both his business and humanitarian endeavors. In 1963, he began his career as a small business owner of a single arts and crafts store that has now exploded into a nationally recognized corporation, Provo C...

Streak_tlu's Featured SuperHero Lenses 

Will Bowen - A Complaint Free World

Will Bowen is a superhero because he helps people affect positive change in their lives by aiding them in their effort to quit complaining. His book, "A Complaint Free World," is really an eye-opener that details how much better the world would be wi...

Marcus Luttrell - The Lone Survivor

Marcus is a hero because he stands for honor, courage, committment, and his country. He's a hero (though he'd say he's a patriot, not a hero) in the truest since of the word.

Team Hoyt

Team Hoyt proves the impossible is nothing. They are an inspiration for people (athletes, the disabled, etc.) all over the world. Dick and Rick help other families struggling with their loved ones being included - Team Hoyt shows them that not only c...

Child Super Heroes

Everyday there's a kid out there that faces insurmountable odds and overcomes them in the face of adversity. In our world today, so many people are so unthankful, ungrateful, and complain about their job, their family, everything... These kids remind...

Sonny Sikes -- My Grandpa, My Hero!

Introducing my superhero... L.N. "Sonny" Sikes is one of the pioneers of the National College Rodeo Association. He is one of the most renown collegiate rodeo coaches (Sam Houston State University) to ever grace the sport. He has taught and mentored...

ZachG's Featured SuperHero Lenses 

Remember The Troops

They are the men and women who fight so that I can enjoy the freedoms I often take for granted. They defend my nation, my home, from those who want to take it away from me. They even pay the ultimate price so that I can sleep soundly at night. They a...

Dr. Benjamin S. Carson

The story of Ben Carson is the stuff of dreams. He went from a life of destitution and and underachievement to becoming a gifted surgeon and dedicating his life to the service of others. Because of his work as a neurosurgeon, Ben Carson has become a...

WC1989's Featured SuperHero Lenses 

People - Lynnette Carr-Hicks

While I only spent my senior year at Westbury High School, I was definitely impressed by my teacher Miss Carr. She was my show choir teacher, and was my Music in our lives teacher, and I could tell she was a strong and good influence on all of her st...

People - André Rieu

This man has a way of bringing classical music with such charisma that it is no longer reserved for only trained ears - anyone, even children, can enjoy classical music at his shows. What is special about his concerts? 1. Decorations. All of the per...

People - Hironobu Sakaguchi

Hironobu Sakaguchi is a great man with a vision to whom I can trace many important aspects of my life to his greatest accomplishment - being the creator of the game Final Fantasy.

People - Idina Menzel

She is so talented she went from being a bar mitzvah singer to having a main role in the first casting of Rent, and her first professional theatrical performance, which ended up being a Broadway show and a huge success. She is the epitome of the say...

People - Nobuo Uematsu

he has constantly been making wonderful music for the Final Fantasy series. His vision is so great that the games' soundtracks are some of the bestsellers in Japan. Whether his songs are traditional, or perhaps with rock influences, all the way to m...

LaraineRose's Featured SuperHero Lenses 

Remembering Tim Russert

Tim Russert, Irish as the daisys which bloom on the Cliffs of Moher and one of America's leading political journalists, died at 58 on Friday, June 13, 2008. I'm not sure whether Tim was superstitious, but perhaps he was, many Irish are. Russert was...

The Squidoo Charity Fund Lens 

Squidoo Charity Fund - Donate Your Squidoo Lens Royalties

The Squidoo Charity Fund was developed for lensmasters who want to donate their royalties to charity, but cannot make a decision where to send them. This is the default payment setting on all new lenses. A different charity (or charities) is chosen...