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Jonestown

American  
[johnz-toun] / ˈdʒoʊnzˌtaʊn /

noun

  1. 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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WallyGator is a working emotional support alligator owned by Joie Henney, of Jonestown, Pennsylvania.

From Seattle Times Sep. 28, 2023

Think Anton Newcombe, the Brian Jonestown Massacre frontman and truculent protagonist of “Dig!” or Josh Harris, the dot-com futurist profiled in “We Live in Public.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2023

His Jonestown studies focused on those suffering severe forms of narcissistic personality disorder, “when the world they have known in the past starts to spin out of their control.”

From New York Times Oct. 8, 2021

He said Kerr was from Austin, while the Harveys were from nearby Jonestown.

From Washington Times Sep. 29, 2020

Dat place is over dere close to Jonestown and de very place dat Mr. Billy Jones and his son John bought, en dats zackly how come dat town git its name.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration

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