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  2. Persons Unknown (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    The series follows a group of strangers who wake up imprisoned inside a small ghost town with no memory of how they wound up there. The thirteen-episode summer series premiered on Monday, June 7, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. [ 1 ] On June 30, NBC moved the show to 8:00 p.m. on Saturday from its Monday time slot. [ 2 ]

  3. Peoplestown - Wikipedia

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    The neighborhood is named for the Peoples family, who owned land there. The neighborhood developed white, integrated, and black sections. The white sections were mostly on the west of Peoplestown, and the all-black sections mostly on the east side. In addition, many black residents lived in detached units at the back of white lots. [1]

  4. Settlement hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    This is how far people will travel to use the services in the settlement: if people travel further the town becomes more important and ranks higher in the settlement hierarchy. A collection of the most widely accepted units of measuring a settlement's size is as follows: [ 3 ] [ 4 ]

  5. Human settlement - Wikipedia

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    In the field of geospatial predictive modeling, a settlement is "a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work". [1] The Global Human Settlement Layer framework produces global spatial information about the human presence on the planet over time. This in the form of built up maps, population density maps ...

  6. Jim Jones - Wikipedia

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    James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and mass murderer who founded and led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. In what Jones termed "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978.

  7. Jonestown - Wikipedia

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    Jonestown became internationally infamous when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 [1] [2] people died at the settlement; at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma; and at a Temple-run building in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations. [3]

  8. People's commune - Wikipedia

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    The urban people's commune will be the tool for transforming old cities into new socialist cities and the organizer of production, exchange, distribution and welfare in people's lives, as well as the social organization which would combine industrial, agricultural, military, educational and trade circles and eventually merge government ...

  9. List of places in the United States named after people ...

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    Bardstown, Kentucky – David Bard, who obtained the original town site from the governor of Virginia, and his brother William Bard, who surveyed the site [46] Bargersville, Indiana – Jefferson Barger [46] Baring Plantation, Maine – Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton [15] Barker, Broome County, New York – John Barker (settler) [46]