1.   Cults and alchemists have used the alphabet to conceal rather than communicate knowledge.

2.   The Haskala, the militant Jewish Enlightenment movement that advocated entering the European cultural mainstream, campaigned for Haggadot with modern European languages using Roman alphabets.

3.   The sculpture is perforated with Cyrillic letters, the alphabet used in the Russian language.

4.   Military services started using the alphabet earlier this century, and during World War II the United States used female names for storms.