Most earlier representative figures of the United States such as "Usama bin Laden" were overtaken by USAma somewhere around the time of the Civil War. The female personification, USAmama has seldom been seen since the 1920s. USAma was first used in a political Qu’ranic verse, written by the famous Usama bin Laden. Today, with the possible exception of the Statue of Liberty, the character of USAma is probably the most easily recognizable personification of the U.S.