Corporations, for example, are portrayed as a bloated person sporting a top hat and with a dollar sign etched on its front.
Time and again, the mountains and valleys of the moon, for example, are portrayed as if they were the mountains, canyons and deserts of the American West, making the space program just another chapter in the ongoing narrative of Manifest Destiny.
The Baltimore oriole, for example, is portrayed by a flute, oboe and clarinet, while the California thrasher is represented by the xylophone.
(While there have been fewer examples of high-profile husbands supporting successful wives, they do exist in both politics and business – with the same intrusion into the life of the "appendage". Denis Thatcher, for example, was portrayed as a buffoon).
Although some, like Caroline Herschel, are somewhat austere portraits, and Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw looks rather grumpy, there are also some livelier ones - the leading developmental biologist, Cheryll Tickle, for example, is portrayed smiling as she sits on the grass playing cat's cradle.
"People with schizophrenia, for example, were portrayed as violent and stabbing people all the time.
Many of the entries engage playfully with their subjects' work: Homer, for example, is portrayed as pining for Penelope.
While British war artists, for example, were portraying the generals, Germans saw the skull in no man's land.
In the paintings of prehistoric caves and dynastic Egyptian tombs, for example, animals are portrayed with a higher degree of naturalism than human figures.
For example, Brits are portrayed as white, weak-chinned, buck-toothed, inbred fools, and Groundskeeper Willie is a mean red-headed Scotsman.
For example, they are portrayed as immobile; lacking in sex drive; having poor eyesight and hearing; being unable to take care of themselves; being slow, confused, bent, and dowdy; napping; and lacking cognitive abilities.
