1.   Early Tuesday morning, a handwritten notice went up on the glass doors in the lobby of the Inter-Continental Hotel in Kabul.

2.   Handwritten Japanese notices crowd the student bulletin board at Broadway Dance Center in midtown Manhattan.

3.   Taped to the outside wall of the modest brick house was a handwritten notice proclaiming it the property of a Muslim villager Petricevic knows.

4.   They sit quietly in a side room, under handwritten notices from other parents, awaiting a daily visit by officers from military units stationed on the frontline.

5.   They sit quietly in a side room, under handwritten notices from other parents, awaiting a daily visit by officers from military units stationed on the front.

6.   All litter bins were moved and handwritten notices put up explained that the measures were to protect the public.

7.   Patrols in railway and subway stations at the weekend removed all litter bins and handwritten notices were put up to explain that the measures were to protect the public.