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Meaning of "jonestown"
Jonestown refers to the name of a settlement in Guyana where a mass suicide took place in 1978 at the direction of cult leader Jim Jones
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- A former settlement in northern Guyana founded by the Peoples Temple cult, and the site of an infamous mass murder-suicide in November 1978.
- The Jonestown massacre itself.
- Any of a number of other places in the English-speaking world.
- Any mass suicide or murder, especially one with religious or cultic overtones.
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Jonestown definitely started like this.
No way there is any jonestown on my watch.
Jonestown is well known for its parks and annual festivities.
Looks like jonestown in here.
To the three troopers in jonestown.
Jonestown is the quintessential example after world war ii of what a cult is.
He planned to rescue Jonestown residents willing to escape.
Jonestown was meant to be a utopia.
It has associations with cool drinks in Jonestown.
Jonestown cult massacre.
Some of them requested assistance in leaving Jonestown.
Jonestown was bonkers.
Jones immediately moved the group to Jonestown.
Jonestown and the Dandys have a window of opportunity.
This could be Jonestown on a global scale.
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Paramedics said the site looked like Jonestown.
It looked like Jonestown in the cafeteria.
I hope this love montage ends like Jonestown.
He eventually moved to Jonestown after a third and final attempt.
There was this pervasive sense of being under attack in Jonestown.
I have been living in Jonestown all my life.
Any members that were seen as wavering were sent to Jonestown.
He also covered the Jonestown massacre the same year.
He was assassinated while investigating human rights violations at Jonestown.
We should bring up the Jonestown massacre.
And Jonestown was actually a mind control program in and of itself.
Heavily inspired by the events in Jonestown.
But seems that Jonestown had something bad in the water.
Her husband and four children all died at Jonestown.
The tragedy of Jonestown is not that nearly a thousand people died.
The album cover is a picture of the aftermath of the infamous Jonestown suicides.
I never had any dreams of Jonestown until this one dream came.
My bosses have it in their minds that this might become another Jonestown.
The complete details of the Jonestown disaster may never be known publicly.
There is a story they like to tell in Pennsylvania concerning the Jonestown flood.
The deaths at Jonestown are considered the largest mass suicide in modern history.
But there is certainly a lot more to be said about what happened at Jonestown.
The isolation of Jonestown also gave him more total control over his followers.
Jones hosted a reception for the delegation that evening at the central pavilion in Jonestown.
The Brian Jonestown had a party to show us their new house and their cool scene.
Those dolls look like Jonestown.
Brian Jonestown Massacre left our video shoot convinced that we had blown way off course.
But some residents of Jonestown lived.
The Jonestown Plaza is central to local social services.
This is the Jonestown of dinners.
Jonestown occurred on the day Harvey Milk was killed.
Darkness settles over Jonestown on its last day on Earth.
Of Jonestown residents were black women.
He calls it our Jonestown office.
Like Jonestown with ankle weights.
