People who did it again and again until it was exactly right, or they were dead.

Who lobbies the League of Nations, twice, to adopt a calendar he designed himself?

What kind of performer turns down every replacement for a seat that no longer has a seat?

What happens when a woman who holds thirty-six patents and hates cleaning drags a garden hose into her kitchen?

Every night for years, Hans Christian Andersen left a note on his bedside table that read: "I only appear to be dead."