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Jonestown

[ johnz-toun ]
/ ˈdʒoʊnzˌtaʊn /

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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