jonestown in English

noun
1
a former religious settlement in the jungle of Guyana, established by Reverend Jim Jones with about 1,000 followers, almost all of whom died in a mass suicide in late 1978.

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1. People Magazine Investigates: Cults explores Cults from world-famous Jonestown to smaller, equally malevolent communities of depravity

2. Some terrifying Cults are so well-known they can be described with a single word: Manson, Waco, Jeffs, Jonestown

3. There are plenty of famous Cults that have popped up over the years, like Jonestown, the Order of the Solar Temple, etc

4. Welcome home to Arbors Apartments in Winston Salem, NC where sophistication and convenience meet in Jonestown area to create a new life for you and your family.

5. Brainwashing has been applied to influence exerted by both small and large groups of people, including religious ‘cults’ and political organizations, for example, Jim Jones' Peoples Temple movement in Jonestown where the mass suicide/massacre occurred in 1978, as well as one-to-one dyads, such as the case of Lee Boyd Malvo, the teenage sniper in the Washington, DC, suburbs in