02-23-2021, 12:12 PM
Deseret is Mormon lingo, a word for honeybee in the Book of Mormon. It was the proposed name for an independent Mormon republic, or, that failing, a State within the Union. It contained the Great Basin, the upper and middle Colorado Basin, and most of southern coastal California (including what are now Los Angeles and San Diego. It obviously never came to pass.
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Welcome to Deseret!
Welcome to Deseret!
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.