Sadly, it was the site of the Jonestown mass suicide in 1978
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Thirty-three years on, 900 souls less. | Jim O'rourke, Sad and So Sad  18, 1978, more than 900 followers of the Rev. Jim i quyn bnh .... A scene at the Jonestown mass suicide site where 918 people died after Jim Jones led.
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Mass suicide at Jonestown - Nov 18, 1978 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Mass suicide at Jonestown on Nov 18, 1978. Learn more about what happened today on History.
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Remains of nine victims of 1978 Jonestown cult massacre found in ...  Aug 7, 2014 ... Remains of nine victims of 1978 Jonestown cult massacre found in empty Delaware funeral home ... nine victims of a 1978 mass cult suicide-murder in Jonestown, Guyana, ..... Site Web Enter search term: Search. Like DailyMail; Follow ...... 'I'm excited and sad': Raven-Symon announces she's leaving The...
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The Jonestown Massacre: The Terrifying Origin of "Drinking the Kool ...  Nov 8, 2012 ... The Jonestown Massacre: The Terrifying Origin of "Drinking the Kool-Aid" ... visited Jonestown in November of 1978, investigating allegations of human ... or commit "revolutionary suicide" (in other words, mass suicide as an .... Moore's paper is just one part of the encyclopedic Jonestown Institute website.
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Jonestown - Wikipedia  "Jonestown" was the informal name for the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project formed by the Peoples Temple, an American religious organization under the leadership of Jim Jones, in northwestern Guyana. It became internationally notorious when on November 18, 1978, a total of ... In recent years, the Jonestown massacre has been the subject of several...
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Johnstown Flood National Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)  The South Fork dam failed on Friday, May 31, 1889 and unleashed 20,000,000 tons of water that devastated Johnstown, PA. The flood killed 2,209 people but it...
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Heaven's Gate Suicide Location, Rancho Santa Fe | Roadtrippers  Jan 3, 2016 ... Plan your road trip to Heaven's Gate Suicide Location in CA with Roadtrippers. ... Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religion doomsday cult based in San ... the bodies of 39 members of the group who had committed mass suicide in order to ... On March 1920, 1997, Marshall Applewhite taped himself...
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Voices from Solitary: A Sentence Worse Than Death | Solitary Watch  Mar 11, 2013 ... When he wrote this essay he was in administrative segregation at Elmira .... I've read of the studies done regarding the effects of long-term isolation in .... creators of this hell; anger at society for turning a blind eye to the torment and ..... Built in 1876, the Elmira institution was designed to hold first-time felons,...
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Disaster Love Canal - Woodruff Library's Research Guides - Emory ...  Jan 12, 2016 ... The Federal Government's Evolving Role in Dealing with Disaster; Love ... In the 1950s a small community of homes was built east of Niagara Falls, New York. ... In April 1978, the New York Department of Health declared the Love Canal area a ... President Carter called the presence of toxic waste in the...
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Tales from the quake - Santa Cruz Sentinel  Oct 17, 2009 ... We gathered on our front lawn as many neighbors came to talk about what had just happened ... I had just left work to go watch the World Series when the quake hit. I heard on the radio that some of my friends were trapped in the roaster ... the nation happened on Oct. 21, 1989, at the Louden Nelson Center...
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8 Big Reasons the 1969 Altamont Festival was a Tragic Disaster ...  Dec 6, 2014 ... The 1969 Altamont festival remains one of rock & roll's darkest days, ... A fan was stabbed to death by a member of the Hells Angels ... the Hell's Angels that were our security force at Hyde Park, but of course they're ... Music fans gather for the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter" concert at Altamont Speedway...
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Johnstown Flood National Memorial - Wikipedia  Johnstown Flood National Memorial commemorates the approximately 2,200 people who died in the Johnstown Flood on May 31, 1889, caused by a break in the South Fork Dam, an earthen structure. The memorial is located at 733 Lake Road near South Fork, Pennsylvania,...
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A Leftist and Her Money Are Soon Parted - Canada Free Press  Mar 11, 2016 ... What's more, just like at Jonestown, a popular liquid is playing a prominent ... (Local farmers, before the new owners parachuted in, called these treeless areas fields. ... At that price you'd think ownership would throw in a free Bernie ... Toyota Admits It's Falling Behind, Considering Partnership With Suzuki...
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May 2010 - South Williamstown Community Association  May 30, 2010 ... Because of that August fiasco near Bennington, Burgoyne's once formidable army .... If you walk up the path to the original site of the redoubt you will be .... called in Vermont, that once served as the sign of the Catamount Tavern, ... This was a rowdy gang of local farmers led by Ethan Allen, bitter foe of New...
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The Johnstown Flood - May 31, 1889 - HISTORY.com  The South Fork Dam collapses on this day in 1889, causing a flood in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, that kills more than 2,200 people. ... At 3:10 p.m., the dam collapsed, causing a roar that could be heard for miles. All of the water ... Some people who had survived by floating on top of debris were burned to death in the fire.
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Twenty years on, Los Angeles riot flashpoint a grim tableau | Reuters  Apr 20, 2012 ... Twenty years ago, at the intersection of Florence and Normandie in south Los ... Twenty years on, Los Angeles riot flashpoint a grim tableau .... Florence and Normandie, epicenter of the violence that began on April 29, 1992. ... it has "ticked upward," said Captain Dennis Kato of the 77th Street station, which...
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The Tragedy of the Love Canal  Damn Interesting  Oct 18, 2006 ... By the 1970s, the Love Canal became the site of one of the worst ... started using the pit as a dumping ground for chemical wastes. ... P. Whalen declared the area around the Love Canal hazardous. ... On 7 August, President Jimmy Carter called upon the Federal Disaster Assistance Agency for its help.
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J! Archive - Show #3088, aired 1998-01-21  Appropriately, it was once known as "The Cataract City" ... Once the site of a Utopian community, today it's famous for its flatware...
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The Northridge Earthquake: 20 Years Ago Today - The Atlantic  Jan 17, 2014 ... On January 17, 1994, at 4:31 am, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck the ... Thousands of buildings were either destroyed outright, or declared unsafe ... Balboa Boulevard in the Granada Hills area of Los Angeles, on January 17, 1994. ... off the State Highway 14 overpass that collapsed onto Interstate 5, an...
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker - Apr 30 ...  1945. Adolf Hitler commits suicide. On this day in 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide ... In a letter to Reverend Samuel Cooper dated April 30, 1776, Samuel Adams ... she was awarded for her collection of essays Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974).
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When the World Series became 'A modest little sporting event' - SI.com  The author recounts the ensuing events, and how Candlestick cheers gave way to fears. ... asks me where I was when The Earthquake hit at 5:04 p.m. on Oct. 17, 1989, I'll ... Freeway in Oakland and 60 buildings in San Francisco's Marina district. ... upper-class neighborhood built largely on landfill, was by far the hardest hit...