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Oct 18, 2010 · The “Jonestown Massacre” occurred on November 18, 1978, when more than 900 members of an American cult called the Peoples Temple died in a mass suicide-murder under the direction of their leader...
Nov 13, 2018 · The 918 deaths in Guyana under cult leader Jim Jones were more mass murder than suicide.
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Jim Jones (born May 13, 1931, Crete, near Lynn, Indiana, U.S.—died November 18, 1978, Jonestown, Guyana) was an American cult leader who promised his followers a utopia in the jungles of South America after proclaiming himself messiah of the Peoples Temple, a San Francisco-based evangelist group.
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- Jim Jones is known for being the leader of the Peoples Temple religious group and for the Jonestown Massacre, when he led the mass murder-suicide o...
- Jim Jones attended Indiana University before transferring to Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he graduated in 1961.
- Jim Jones died of a gunshot wound to the head in Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978. His death occurred during the Jonestown Massacre, when he...
Nov 3, 2021 · The cult went undetected for years (as the children were forced to hide whenever visitors arrived), but in 1987, the group’s headquarters was finally raided and all children were removed from ...
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Jan 10, 2024 · Experts say the Chichén Itzá renaissance under the serpent cult could have been as brief as a few decades or as long as 150 years.
Snake cults had been well established in Canaan in the Bronze Age: archaeologists have uncovered serpent cult objects in Bronze Age strata at several pre-Israelite cities in Canaan: two at Megiddo, [5] one at Gezer, [6] one in the sanctuary of the Area H temple at Tel Hazor [7] and two at Shechem. [8]
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This, we’re told, was the gigantic snake Alexander had bought in Pella, which he held wrapped round his body with its head tucked under his armpit, while holding a false head supposedly made of linen, with horse-hairs inside that could be pulled to make the mouth open and the tongue shoot out.
