W. Ralph Eubanks reviews “Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word” by Matthew Battles.

The letter U is the 21st in the alphabet and adding the 2 gives 23. In The Beatles film Yellow Submarine, The Butterfly Stomper, who destroys all things of beauty, wears a shirt with the number 23.

Archaeologists discovered an ancient bronze artifact, the hand of Irulegi, with writing in an early Basque alphabet previously unknown. Photo from Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi Archaeologists in ...

The Kabbalah, a profound mystical tradition, posits that the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet are foundational elements of existence, each carrying unique energies and secret wisdom that ...

The language is called 'Standard Galactic Alphabet' and was first featured in a game series called 'Commander Keen'. This title is an old 2D side-scroller from the early 90s which used the ...