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Jonestown
[ johnz-toun ]
noun
- a former settlement in northern Guyana, northwest of Georgetown: an agricultural commune of an American religious cult called the Peoples Temple, infamous as the site of a mass suicide and murder in 1978.
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The return of Stephen Glass, the truth about Anonymous and escaping Jonestown.
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If it were not the case, then there would be a Jonestown after every performance of King Lear.
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The most famous event to take place in this landscape was the Jonestown massacre in 1978.
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Do you go with former Jonestown cult leader and Butler alum Jim Jones or Johnny Carson's ex-saxophone player Tommy Newsom?
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He was frustrated that the State Department had stonewalled his attempts to find out what was going on in Jonestown.
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