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Alison Eldridge was Managing Editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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Large metal vat in the foreground with a dark liquid inside, surrounded by scattered cups and boxes, with numerous bodies lying on the ground near a wooden walkway in Jonestown, Guyana.
Jonestown
Jonestown, (November 18, 1978), location of the mass murder-suicide of members of the California-based Peoples Temple cult at the behest of their charismatic but paranoid leader, Jim Jones, in Jonestown agricultural commune, Guyana. The death toll exceeded 900, including some 300 who were age 17

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