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Jonestown was the highlight of Mike Touchette's life — for a time. The 21-year-old Indiana native felt pride pioneering in the distant jungle of Guyana, South America. As a self-taught bulldozer operator, he worked alongside other Peoples Temple members in the humid heat, his blade carving roads and sites for wooden buildings with metal roofs. |
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Over four decades, as they have built new lives, they have struggled with grief and the feeling that they were pariahs. Some have come to acknowledge that they helped enable Jim Jones to seize control over people drawn to his interracial church, socialist preaching and religious hucksterism. |
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Jonestown was the highlight of Mike Touchette's life - for a time. The 21-year-old Indiana native felt pride pioneering in the distant jungle of Guyana, South America. As a self-taught bulldozer operator, he worked alongside other Peoples Temple members in the humid heat, his.... |
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Over four decades, as they have built new lives, they have struggled with grief and the feeling that they were pariahs. Some have come to acknowledge that they helped enable Jim Jones to seize control over people drawn to his interracial church, socialist preaching and religious hucksterism. |
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The 21-year-old Indiana native felt pride pioneering in the distant jungle of Guyana, South America. As a self-taught bulldozer operator, he worked alongside other Peoples Temple members in the humid heat, his blade carving roads and sites for wooden buildings with metal roofs. |
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Did Duterte influence the return of Balangiga bells? MANILA, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte might have been vocal on his demands to the American government to return the Balangiga bells to the Philippines but the campaign was more of a veterans-to-veterans effort, a historian said. |
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Movember event raising money for cancer fight. The Prescott Valley Chamber of Commerce invites the community to help raise money and awareness for men’s cancer and the Movember Foundation. Join chamber members in the Entertainment District, 3001 N. Main St., from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 17, with 20 vendor and crafter booths to visit. |
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SEBRING — Positive Medical Transport received the 2018 Operator of the Year award from the Florida Commission for the Transportation Disadvantaged (CTD). The CTD is an independent agency responsible for the coordination of transportation services for older adults, persons with disabilities,
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NEW YORK (AP) — Whether as a design element or an ode to a passion or hobby, coffee table books have it covered, especially as holiday gifts. Splashy, special interest books are in abundance this time of year and may seem extravagant when self-purchased. |
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Yes, the “public mood” is almost a mystical term: in the sense that although it can be gauged scientifically through opinion polls, a poll is only as good as the integrity – and even more important, the competence – of those who conduct it. That’s why many an aspirant to political office who has.... |
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Rosemarie Barrett volunteers with Paddington Arts helping young adults take part in Notting Hill Carnival. Rosemarie moved to the UK from Jamaica in 1964 – and embraced her new home of Kilburn, North West London. She has volunteered with Paddington Arts for more than 30 years helping young adults take part in the Notting Hill Carnival. |
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