The structure a triacyglicerol, a.k.a fat. This fat molecule possesses three identical, saturated fatty acid (palmitic acid) units, linked to a glycerol molecule. Drawn in Inkscape.
Well, not all people in the past were stuffy like the Victorians. This woman from 1916 (it depicts a "Miss Hinman Bird") was doing a quite sexy dance as "Goddess of Dawn" in some weird artsy dance production. Wild!
Fight! Fight! This super skinny lady and this quite fat man are fighting about something to the candid amusement of the onlookers. What are they fighting about? I like to imagine she told him it would be a wild party and he got there and it was boring and he lost his temper.
I'm sure back when this was made this was a scandalous image of a lay showing her legs, ooh, wild independent woman! This is an island lady, tropical lady, take a break on an island.
Old Mother Hubbard sat in her cupboard crying about her dear old goldfish dying... waaait, that's not the way it goes? This is a lady. And a cupboard. She is in the kitchen, I think. Making dinner I suppose.
A gentleman kindly stands as his oddly haired partner (is that a star wars hairdo?!) looks up at him from her book. I wonder what she is reading? Is he reading it too? Is that why she is looking up and seems annoyed? No one likes someone reading over their shoulder!
I was browsing through an old 1909 (thus public domain) issue of the Pullman Herald newspaper and came across this delightful illustration for a Clothcraft Clothes ad. The placement and behavior of the characters is most interesting. Here for the future to enjoy!
Two ladies of the 1920s sit and are examined by the viewer. The ladies that this drawing was based off are now gone from this earth, this is their digital ghost. Synthesized from an image that appear in the October 1920 edition of The Morning Tulsa (and thus safely public domain, yup!)
This lady was considered the saucy in 1902. I suppose that is a walking stick or a pointer in her hand. Or maybe some kind of stick to whack people over the heads? At least she is confident with what she has!
It didn't always be just "Uncle Sam" defending America, the kickass Lady Liberty also used to do her share. But then uncle sam must have killed her or locked her in a room, because we haven't seen much of her these days.