Farrago
Farrago is a Latin word, meaning "mixed cattle fodder", used to refer to a confused variety of miscellaneous things. As a name, it may refer to: * ''Farrago'' (plant), a genus of plants in the family Poaceae * ''Farrago'' (magazine), student newspaper at the University of Melbourne *'' Farrago rerum theologicarum'', a book by Wessel Gansfort *''Ronnie Scott's Jazz Farrago ''Ronnie Scott's Jazz Farrago'' is a book of articles collected from ''Jazz at Ronnie Scott's'', the house magazine of Ronnie Scott's jazz club in London, England. The magazine was published for over twenty-five years from 1979–2006, producing ...

Farrago (magazine)
''Farrago'' is the student publication for the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia published by the University of Melbourne Student Union. It is the oldest student publication in Australia. It was first published on 3 April 1925. Name The term "farrago", , means a confused variety of miscellaneous things. It has been used by Edward Tylor in his book ''Primitive Culture''. The name is included in the motto (drawn originally from the ''Satires'' of Juvenal) ''Quidquid agunt homines nostri farrago libelli est'' – "whatever men do forms the motley subject of our page" which was written on the first issue of the famous eighteenth-century periodical ''Tatler''. History The publication was founded in 1925 by Randal Heymanson, who was the first editor, and Brian Fitzpatrick, who was the first chief of staff. For a number of years, ''Farrago'' was published in a newspaper or broadsheet format. In the 2000s, ''Farrago'' switched to a magazine format, which it contin ...
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Farrago (plant)
''Farrago'' is a genus of African plants in the grass family. The only known species is ''Farrago racemosa'', native to the Lindi Region of southeastern Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and .... References Endemic flora of Tanzania Chloridoideae {{Chloridoideae-stub ...
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Farrago Rerum Theologicarum
Wessel Harmensz Gansfort (1419 – October 4, 1489) was a theologian and early humanist of the northern Low Countries. Many variations of his last name are seen and he is sometimes incorrectly called Johan Wessel. Gansfort has been called one of the reformers before the Reformation. He protested against a perceived paganizing of the papacy, superstitious and magical uses of the sacraments, the authority of ecclesiastical tradition, and the tendency in later scholastic theology to lay greater stress, in a doctrine of justification, upon the instrumentality of the human will than on the work of Christ for man's salvation. Some of John of Wessel's teachings foreshadowed the Protestant reformation. Early life and education Gansfort was born at Groningen. After initial schooling at the local Latin school of St Martin's, he was educated at the municipal school of Zwolle, which was closely connected to the Brethren of the Common Life in whose house the young student lived. He develop ...
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