The Deseret alphabet was developed primarily by a committee made up of the university's board of regents and church leaders Parley P. Pratt and Heber C. Kimball.

* Deseret alphabet — a non-Latin phonetic alphabet developed in the mid-19th century by the board of regents of the University of Deseret ( University of Utah ) under the direction of Brigham Young.

Some, such as the Shavian alphabet, Quikscript, Alphabet 26, and the Deseret alphabet, were devised as English spelling reforms.

Some neographies have been encoded in Unicode, in particular the Shavian alphabet and the Deseret alphabet.

Sometime in the mid 1850s, working with George D. Watt, he helped develop the Deseret alphabet.

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Before the Compromise: < ul >< li > California Gold Rush | Gold Rush California applies to become free state < li > Southern United States | South wanted Southern California as slave territory < li > Texas claims territory as far as the Rio Grande < li > U. S. provisional government of New Mexico | New Mexico resists Texas, applies to be free state < li > Texas takes El Paso, Texas | El Paso February 1850 < li > Mormon pioneers apply to become State of Deseret </ ol >

Territorial results of the Compromise: < ul >< li > California is admitted List of U. S. state partition proposals # California | undivided as a Slave and free states | free state, denying Southern expansion to the Pacific < li > Texas trades some territorial claims for debt relief < li > U. S. provisional government of New Mexico | New Mexico and State of Deseret | Deseret are denied statehood and become New Mexico Territory and Utah Territory with slavery left to Popular sovereignty in the United States # Emergence of the term “ popular sovereignty ” and its pejorative connotation | popular sovereignty </ ol >

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Deseret () ( Deseret: ) is a term derived from the Book of Mormon, a scripture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) and other Latter Day Saint groups.

Jeff Vice of the Deseret News commented that " unfortunately, casting Cruz as a tough girl is a hilariously bad ..." and Michael Miller of the Village Voice writing that " as Satan's helper Carmen, Penélope Cruz doesn't hold a candle to her cocaine-huffing enabler in Blow.

The reviewer for the Deseret Morning News ( Salt Lake City ), wrote of the 2007 Pioneer Theatre Company production: " Paint Your Wagon " has a lusty new lease on life and is rarin ' to go.

The original name of the Mormon settlement, Deseret, is said to be the word for " honeybee " in the Book of Mormon ; a beehive appears on the Utah state flag ; the state motto is " Industry " ( for which bees are known ); and Utah is widely known as the " Beehive State.

Most settlers avoided the rugged Rocky Mountains and those headed for the Oregon, the Deseret, or California, usually following the North Platte River and the Sweetwater River to South Pass in what is now Wyoming.

The Utah Territory is shown in blue, while the proposed State of Deseret is outlined by the dotted line.

The Tribune, often referred to as just " the Trib ," is owned by the Denver-based MediaNews Group, and operated in a joint operating agreement with the Deseret News through Newspaper Agency Corporation.

The Deseret News is a newspaper published in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, and is Utah's oldest continuously published daily newspaper.

The Deseret News is owned by Deseret News Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Deseret Management Corporation, which is a for-profit business holdings company owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The editorial tone of the Deseret News is usually described as moderate to conservative, and is often assumed to reflect the values of its owner, the LDS Church.

Richards received a degree in English from the University of Deseret, which later became the University of Utah.

As the twentieth century ended, the Deseret News found itself embroiled in a contentious and often public battle with The Salt Lake Tribune, centered around the terms of their joint operating agreement, the desire of the Deseret News to switch from afternoon to morning publication, and ownership changes at the Tribune.

Another ecclesiocracy was the administration of the short-lived State of Deseret, an independent entity briefly organized in the American West by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo resulted in the Mexican Cession by which Deseret was incorporated into the United States.

The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest institution of higher education.

The university was established on February 28, 1850, as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, and Orson Spencer was appointed as the first chancellor of the university.

The LDS-organized territory petitioned for statehood as the State of Deseret in 1849-1850, but the petition was rejected by the U. S. Congress because of the vast size of the relatively unpopulated area that was controlled exclusively by the Church.

The album received mixed reviews by critics, with Allmusic giving it three out of five stars, and The Deseret News giving it a positive review.

Appraised by the LDS church for $ 25, 000, it was purchased on October 13 in exchange for several artifacts the church owned in duplicate, including a $ 5 gold Mormon coin, Deseret banknotes, and a first edition of the Book of Mormon.

The State of Deseret was a provisional state of the United States, proposed in 1849 by Latter-day Saints settlers in Salt Lake City.

In September 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850, the Utah Territory was created by Act of Congress, encompassing a portion of the northern section of Deseret.

The Mormon settlers had drafted a state constitution in 1849 and Deseret had become the de facto government in the Great Basin by the time of the creation of the Utah Territory.

In the first session of the territorial legislature in October, the legislature adopted all the laws and ordinances previously enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Deseret.

He authored two books, one about Isaiah and one about the last days, which were published by LDS-owned Deseret Book.

* Deseret Management Corporation, controls private businesses owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

* Newspaper Agency Corporation, a printing, delivery and advertising company jointly owned by the Deseret Morning News and The Salt Lake Tribune

Regional operators include Deseret Industries in the western United States, and those run by the Bethesda Lutheran Home in the Upper Midwest.

From 1965 until 1996 Monson was a member of the Deseret News Publishing Company board of directors.

This was one of multiple positions that Monson resigned in 1996 when it was decided that General Authorities should leave all business boards of directors, with the lone exception of the board of Deseret Management Corporation.

The Deseret News also created an editorial advisory board to work with Gilbert and Edwards ; it consisted of people with a broad variety of backgrounds:

In pursuing a career, he became a reporter for the Deseret News and continued working for the paper for sixty years, advancing to the position of president and chairman of the board.