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Jonestown
(Jones·town)
Entry from US Dictionary
Pronunciation:
/ˈjōnzˌtoun/
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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