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- Deseret is a wizarding territory in wizarding America. Little is currently known of it. The territory is covered in the textbook Wizards and Warlocks in the Ancient World under the unit "Wizards in the New World," along with Alta California, New Amsterdam, and Arcadia.
- The Deseret alphabet (Deseret: 𐐔𐐯𐑅𐐨𐑉𐐯𐐻 or 𐐔𐐯𐑆𐐲𐑉𐐯𐐻) is a sound-based alphabet developed in the mid-19th century by the board of regents of the University of Deseret (later the University of Utah) under the direction of Brigham Young, second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Young also prescribed the learning of Deseret to the school system, stating "It will be the means of introducing uniformity in our orthography, and the years that are now required to learn to read and spell can be devoted to other studies".
- Deseret was the Mormon name for an independent nation which the followers of that religion claimed for themselves within the borders of the United States. Its borders were roughly equal to those of the state of Utah, which at one time had a Mormon majority. It never achieved recognition from any established nation.
- The word Deseret comes from the Book of Mormon, where it is mentioned in Ether 2:3: And they did also carry with them Deseret, which, by interpretation, is a honey bee. Early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who emigrated to what would later become Utah adopted the distinctive name as a way to focus on the communal and beneficial traits common to colonies of bees--industry, thrift, and cooperation. The first name proposed by Mormon leaders for what would later become Utah was the State of Deseret, and the name was used in a wide variety of economic and social ventures. In 1852, for instance, Brigham Young announced the development of the Deseret Alphabet, and the Deseret News was the first newspaper published by the Saints in Salt Lake City. Other examples include
- Featuring a constitutional theodemocratic government, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints exerts and wields tremendous power in the Deseret, with its organization and leadership incorporated into the framework of the Deseretian government. It is the only theocratic government in the Americas. The model of government is directly inspired from the system church leader Brigham Young attempted to implement during the 1850s. When the Deseret was a territory of Sierra, it unilaterally seceded during the Sierran Civil War. Following the war, the Deseret was granted substantial autonomy although its government was officially secular and lacked the religious elements the modern government has today. The modern government and status of the Deseret as a constituent country of the Kingdom
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* Utah This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. If an article link referred you to this title, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
- The word Deseret comes from the Book of Mormon, where it is mentioned in Ether 2:3: And they did also carry with them Deseret, which, by interpretation, is a honey bee. Early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who emigrated to what would later become Utah adopted the distinctive name as a way to focus on the communal and beneficial traits common to colonies of bees--industry, thrift, and cooperation. The first name proposed by Mormon leaders for what would later become Utah was the State of Deseret, and the name was used in a wide variety of economic and social ventures. In 1852, for instance, Brigham Young announced the development of the Deseret Alphabet, and the Deseret News was the first newspaper published by the Saints in Salt Lake City. Other examples include Deseret Book Company (a large LDS book publisher) and Deseret Industries (a rehabilitative service operating a series of thrift stores in areas with large LDS populations).
- Deseret is a wizarding territory in wizarding America. Little is currently known of it. The territory is covered in the textbook Wizards and Warlocks in the Ancient World under the unit "Wizards in the New World," along with Alta California, New Amsterdam, and Arcadia.
- Deseret was the Mormon name for an independent nation which the followers of that religion claimed for themselves within the borders of the United States. Its borders were roughly equal to those of the state of Utah, which at one time had a Mormon majority. It never achieved recognition from any established nation. The Mormons launched uprisings to force the US to recognize Deseret in 1857, 1881, 1914-15, and 1941-3. The last three took place during wars between the United States and the Confederate States, and were supported by the Confederates. In 1942 Jake Featherston promised to grant Deseret diplomatic recognition by the Confederate States if the Mormons could make convincing gains against the US, but by 1943 they had not done so. Each rebellion was fought more desperately than the last. During the Great War, the Mormons fought ferociously, requiring the efforts of several US infantry divisions to suppress the revolt. They managed to achieve a notable victory against US forces at one point by digging a massive tunnel network behind their lines, loading the tunnels with explosives, and then detonating them when the advancing US army reached the area over the tunnels. This destroyed most of a division, nearly collapsed the southern front of the US ring around Deseret, and was a severe setback in the career of Irving Morrell. However, the Mormons were eventually defeated after most of their towns had been reduced to rubble, due to their inability to match the US's superiority in artillery and air power. In 1941, the Deseret rebellion was less effective at holding territory but, if anything, more ferocious. The Mormon rebels were the first group during the war to make use of people bombs- individuals who strapped explosive fragmentation devices to their bodies and detonated them when they reached a place they considered a target. The first people bomb attack was made by a Mormon woman against a US military R&R facility. Later attacks occurred around the globe, as the tactic was copied by other desperate groups such as black rebels in the CSA (who had already invented the 'auto bomb'), various separatist movements in Austria-Hungary, and other underdogs in nations involved in the Second Great War.
- The Deseret alphabet (Deseret: 𐐔𐐯𐑅𐐨𐑉𐐯𐐻 or 𐐔𐐯𐑆𐐲𐑉𐐯𐐻) is a sound-based alphabet developed in the mid-19th century by the board of regents of the University of Deseret (later the University of Utah) under the direction of Brigham Young, second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In public statements, Young claimed the alphabet was intended to replace the traditional Latin alphabet with an alternative, more phonetically accurate alphabet for the English language. This would offer immigrants an opportunity to learn to read and write English, he said, which is often less phonetically consistent than many other languages. Similar experiments were not uncommon during the period, and some of the better-known results include Pitman Shorthand and (much later) the Shavian alphabet. Young also prescribed the learning of Deseret to the school system, stating "It will be the means of introducing uniformity in our orthography, and the years that are now required to learn to read and spell can be devoted to other studies".
- Featuring a constitutional theodemocratic government, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints exerts and wields tremendous power in the Deseret, with its organization and leadership incorporated into the framework of the Deseretian government. It is the only theocratic government in the Americas. The model of government is directly inspired from the system church leader Brigham Young attempted to implement during the 1850s. When the Deseret was a territory of Sierra, it unilaterally seceded during the Sierran Civil War. Following the war, the Deseret was granted substantial autonomy although its government was officially secular and lacked the religious elements the modern government has today. The modern government and status of the Deseret as a constituent country of the Kingdom was established through the Charter for the Kingdom of Sierra in 1950 when it, along with Hawaii and Sierra were reorganized into co-equal parts of the Kingdom, sharing a unified national government, legislature, and monarch. Over 80% of the Deseret's citizens are Mormons, most of whom are descendants of early Mormon settlers in the region who came from the United States. The Canaanites, a non-Christian New Age religious group with similar background and development, forms the next largest group in the Deseret, accounting for 10% of the population as a visible minority. According to international human rights groups, Canaanites have been treated as second-class citizens, largely because they and other non-Mormons are legally barred from holding most political posts. Historically, the Mormons and Canaanites held a bitter rivalry, fighting for control over the Deseret and other portions of North America. The most violent of these conflicts occurred during the Canaanite-Mormon War, a war that happened simultaneously with the Sierran Civil War. Although tensions have eased over the decades since then, Canaanites remain largely underrepresented in the Mormon-dominated government, and their status remains a controversial and contentious issue for the Deseret. Both groups have great influence on the country's culture and daily life, with the Canaanites' Serran language one of the country's official languages (the other being English). Although the Deseret is a part of the Kingdom, its political and social history remains distinctively separate from Sierra. In addition, it retains its own legal system which is a combination of Anglo-American law and law applied directly from the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and the other standard works. It has its own devolved government, the unicameral Council of Fifty, whose members are elected from one of the 50 counties, areas of which are organized by the Church, not the state (which are only administratively binding to the state and have no purpose within the Church administrative organization). Although the freedom of religion is established by the Deseret, the official religion in the Deseret is Mormonism, with the Church of the Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as the state church. Although while in theory, the President of the Deseret can be a non-Mormon (as there is no law expressively prohibiting this), the President is also, by constitutional stipulation, the President of the Church, who is selected by the Council of the Church. Since the Deseret's incorporation, all of its presidents have been Mormon and members of the church leadership.
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