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Heaven's Gate was an American new religious movement known primarily for the mass suicides committed by its members in 1997.^[1]

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Adweek

Adweek is a weekly American advertising trade publication that was first published in 1979.

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Alan Hale (astronomer)

Alan Hale (born 1958) is an American professional astronomer, who co-discovered Comet Hale–Bopp along with amateur astronomer Thomas Bopp.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Ancient astronauts (or ancient aliens) refer to a pseudoscientific set of beliefs that hold that intelligent extraterrestrial beings visited Earth and made contact with humans in antiquity and prehistoric times. Heaven's Gate (religious group) and ancient astronauts are ancient astronaut speculation.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Art Bell

Arthur William Bell III (June 17, 1945 – April 13, 2018) was an American broadcaster and author.

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Asceticism

Asceticism is a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from worldly pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals.

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Ashgate Publishing

Ashgate Publishing was an academic book and journal publisher based in Farnham (Surrey, United Kingdom).

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Asphyxia

Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition of deficient supply of oxygen to the body which arises from abnormal breathing.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Aum Shinrikyo

, better known by their former name, is a Japanese new religious movement and doomsday cult founded by Shoko Asahara in 1987. Heaven's Gate (religious group) and Aum Shinrikyo are apocalyptic groups and cults.

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Authoritarianism is a political system characterized by the rejection of political plurality, the use of strong central power to preserve the political status quo, and reductions in democracy, separation of powers, civil liberties, and the rule of law.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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Berlin International Film Festival

The Berlin International Film Festival (Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale, is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.

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Bible prophecy

Bible prophecy or biblical prophecy comprises the passages of the Bible that are claimed to reflect communications from God to humans through prophets.

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Bonnie Nettles

Bonnie Lu Nettles (née Trousdale; August 29, 1927 – June 19, 1985), later known as Ti, was co-founder and co-leader with Marshall Applewhite of the Heaven's Gate new religious movement.

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Book of Revelation

The Book of Revelation or Book of the Apocalypse is the final book of the New Testament (and therefore the final book of the Christian Bible).

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Branch Davidians

The Branch Davidians (or the General Association of Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventists) are an apocalyptic cult or doomsday cult founded in 1955 by Benjamin Roden. Heaven's Gate (religious group) and Branch Davidians are apocalyptic groups, Christian new religious movements, cults and religious belief systems founded in the United States.

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Brill Publishers

Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Castration

Castration is any action, surgical, chemical, or otherwise, by which a male loses use of the testicles: the male gonad.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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CBS Evening News

The CBS Evening News is the flagship evening television news program of CBS News, the news division of the CBS television network in the United States.

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CBS News

CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.

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Celibacy

Celibacy (from Latin caelibatus) is the state of voluntarily being unmarried, sexually abstinent, or both, usually for religious reasons.

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Christian eschatology

Christian eschatology is a minor branch of study within Christian theology which deals with the doctrine of the "last things", especially the Second Coming of Christ, or Parousia.

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Christology

In Christianity, Christology is a branch of theology that concerns Jesus.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Coast to Coast AM

Coast to Coast AM is an American late-night radio talk show that deals with a variety of topics.

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Colorado House of Representatives

The Colorado House of Representatives is the lower house of the Colorado General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Comet Hale–Bopp

Comet Hale–Bopp (formally designated C/1995 O1) is a comet that was one of the most widely observed of the 20th century and one of the brightest seen for many decades.

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Computer-mediated communication (CMC) is defined as any human communication that occurs through the use of two or more electronic devices.

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Consciousness

Consciousness, at its simplest, is awareness of internal and external existence.

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Copley Press

Copley Press was a privately held newspaper business, founded in Illinois but later based in La Jolla, California.

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Court TV

Court TV is an American digital broadcast network and former pay-television channel.

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Courtney Brown (born 1952) is an American political scientist and parapsychologist who is an associate professor in the political science department at Emory University.

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Cremation

Cremation is a method of final disposition of a dead body through burning.

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Crime Library

Crime Library is a website documenting major crimes, criminals, trials, forensics, and criminal profiling from books.

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Cult

A cult is a group requiring unwavering devotion to a set of beliefs and practices which are considered deviant outside the norms of society, which is typically led by a charismatic and self-appointed leader who tightly controls its members. Heaven's Gate (religious group) and cult are cults.

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Cybersectarianism

Cybersectarianism is the phenomenon of new religious movements and other groups using the Internet for text distribution, recruitment, and information sharing.

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Da Capo Press

Da Capo Press is an American publishing company with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Daily Mirror

The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper.

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Dark Side of the 90s

Dark Side of the 90s is a documentary television series created by Insight Productions and RailSplitter Pictures for Vice Studios that takes a look at popular culture of the 1990s.

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Deadline Hollywood

Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.

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Eschatology

Eschatology concerns expectations of the end of present age, human history, or the world itself.

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Eternal Atake

Eternal Atake is the second studio album by American rapper and singer Lil Uzi Vert.

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Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism, also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the "good news" of Christianity, being "born again" in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as authoritatively guided by the Bible, God's revelation to humanity.

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Extraterrestrial life, alien life, or colloquially simply aliens, is life which does not originate from Earth.

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Fictional universe

A fictional universe (also called an imagined universe or a constructed universe) is the internally consistent fictional setting used in a narrative work or work of art, most commonly associated with works of fantasy and science fiction.

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Gary Sherman (director)

Gary Sherman (born 28 August 1945) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer from Chicago, Illinois.

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Gizmodo

Gizmodo is a design, technology, science, and science fiction website.

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Glynn Washington

Glynn Washington (born 1970) is a media personality and producer.

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Gnosticism

Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek:, romanized: gnōstikós, Koine Greek: ɣnostiˈkos, 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in the late 1st century AD among Jewish and early Christian sects.

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Grace Caroline Currey

Grace Caroline Currey (née Fulton; born 17 July 1996) is an American actress and dancer.

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Guide dog

Guide dogs (colloquially known in the US as seeing-eye dogs) are assistance dogs trained to lead blind or visually impaired people around obstacles.

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Heaven

Heaven, or the heavens, is a common religious cosmological or transcendent supernatural place where beings such as deities, angels, souls, saints, or venerated ancestors are said to originate, be enthroned, or reside.

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Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults

Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults is an American documentary television miniseries revolving around the religious group Heaven's Gate and its leader Marshall Applewhite.

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Heidelberg

Heidelberg (Heidlberg) is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany.

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Helena Blavatsky

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (– 8 May 1891), often known as Madame Blavatsky, was a Russian and American mystic and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875.

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Hermeneutics

Hermeneutics is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.

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IndieWire

IndieWire is a film industry and film criticism website that was established in 1996.

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An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Investigation Discovery

Investigation Discovery, stylized and branded on-air as ID since 2008, is an American multinational pay television network dedicated to true crime documentaries owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Jacques Vallée

Jacques Fabrice Vallée (born September 24, 1939) is an Internet pioneer, computer scientist, venture capitalist, author, ufologist and astronomer currently residing in San Francisco, California and Paris, France.

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Janja Lalich

Janja Lalich (born 1945) is an American sociologist and writer.

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Jesus

Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.

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Jonestown

The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name "Jonestown", was a remote settlement in Guyana established by the Peoples Temple, an American cult under the leadership of Jim Jones. Heaven's Gate (religious group) and Jonestown are mass suicides.

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Judaism

Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.

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Keds

Keds is an American brand known for its canvas shoes with rubber soles.

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King James Version

on the title-page of the first edition and in the entries in works like the "Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church", etc.--> The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version (AV), is an Early Modern English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611, by sponsorship of King James VI and I.

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Knowledge Fight

Knowledge Fight is a podcast dedicated to analyzing and critiquing episodes of Alex Jones' InfoWars shows.

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LA Weekly

LA Weekly is a free weekly alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, California.

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Leiden

Leiden (in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands.

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Lil Uzi Vert

Symere Bysil Woods (born July 31, 1995), known professionally as Lil Uzi Vert, is an American rapper.

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Little Bo-Peep

"Little Bo-Peep" or "Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep" is a popular English language nursery rhyme.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Louis Jolyon West

Louis Jolyon West (October 6, 1924 – January 2, 1999) was an American psychiatrist involved in the public sphere, known mainly for his work/involvement with the MKUltra project, a CIA mind control project in the late 1960s.

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Louis Theroux

Louis Sebastian Theroux (born 20 May 1970) is a British-American documentarian, journalist, broadcaster, and author.

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Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends is a television documentary series, in which Louis Theroux gives viewers the chance to get brief glimpses into the worlds of individuals and groups that they would not normally come into contact with or experience up close.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the UK and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the US) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster).

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Manzano, New Mexico

Manzano is a census-designated place (CDP) in Torrance County, New Mexico, United States.

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Marshall Applewhite

Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr. (May 17, 1931 – March 26, 1997), also known as Do, among other names, was an American religious leader who founded and led the Heaven's Gate new religious movement (often described as a cult), and organized their mass suicide in 1997. Heaven's Gate (religious group) and Marshall Applewhite are sexual abstinence and religion.

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Marysville, California

Marysville is a city and the county seat of Yuba County, California, located in the Gold Country region of Northern California.

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Mass suicide

Mass suicide is a form of suicide, occurring when a group of people simultaneously kill themselves. Heaven's Gate (religious group) and Mass suicide are mass suicides.

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Max (streaming service)

Max, formerly and still known in some regions as HBO Max, is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.

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Michael C. Hall

Michael Carlyle Hall (born February 1, 1971) is an American actor, singer, and songwriter, best known for his roles as Dexter Morgan, the titular character in the Showtime series Dexter, and David Fisher in the HBO drama series Six Feet Under. These two roles collectively earned Hall a Golden Globe Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.

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Millenarianism

Millenarianism or millenarism is the belief by a religious, social, or political group or movement in a coming fundamental transformation of society, after which "all things will be changed".

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Millennialism

Millennialism or chiliasm (from the Greek equivalent) is a belief which is held by some religious denominations.

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Monasticism

Monasticism, also called monachism or monkhood, is a religious way of life in which one renounces worldly pursuits to devote oneself fully to spiritual work.

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Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God

The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God (MRTC) was a religious movement founded by Credonia Mwerinde and Joseph Kibweteere in southwestern Uganda. Heaven's Gate (religious group) and movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God are apocalyptic groups, Christian new religious movements, cults and mass suicides.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Nestorianism

Nestorianism is a term used in Christian theology and Church history to refer to several mutually related but doctrinarily distinct sets of teachings.

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New Age

New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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New religious movement

A new religious movement (NRM), also known as alternative spirituality or a new religion, is a religious or spiritual group that has modern origins and is peripheral to its society's dominant religious culture. Heaven's Gate (religious group) and new religious movement are cults.

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New Testament

The New Testament (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon.

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New York University Press

New York University Press (or NYU Press) is a university press that is part of New York University.

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The news media or news industry are forms of mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public.

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News.com.au

News.com.au (stylised in all lowercase) is an Australian website owned by News Corp Australia.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.

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Niche insurance

Niche insurance is insurance provided for small, low-demand markets.

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Nichelle Nichols

Nichelle Nichols (born Grace Dell Nichols; December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) was an American actress, singer and dancer whose portrayal of Uhura in Star Trek and its film sequels was groundbreaking for African American actresses on American television.

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Nike, Inc.

Nike, Inc. (stylized as NIKE) is an American athletic footwear and apparel corporation headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, United States.

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Nomenclature

Nomenclature is a system of names or terms, or the rules for forming these terms in a particular field of arts or sciences.

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North County Times

The North County Times was a local newspaper in San Diego's North County.

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Nova Religio

Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering religious studies, focusing on the academic study of new religious movements.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Nyota Uhura

Nyota Uhura, or simply Uhura, is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise.

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Order of the Solar Temple

The Order of the Solar Temple (OTS), or simply the Solar Temple, was an esoteric new religious movement and secret society, often described as a cult, notorious for the mass deaths of many of its members in several incidents throughout the 1990s. Heaven's Gate (religious group) and Order of the Solar Temple are apocalyptic groups, Christian new religious movements, cults, mass suicides and new Age organizations.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Paul Virilio

Paul Virilio (4 January 1932 – 10 September 2018) was a French cultural theorist, urbanist, architect and aesthetic philosopher.

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Peoples Temple

The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, originally Peoples Temple Full Gospel Church and commonly shortened to Peoples Temple, was an American new religious organization which existed between 1954 and 1978 and was affiliated with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Heaven's Gate (religious group) and Peoples Temple are apocalyptic groups, Christian new religious movements, cults, mass suicides and religious belief systems founded in the United States.

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Phenobarbital

Phenobarbital, also known as phenobarbitone or phenobarb, sold under the brand name Luminal among others, is a medication of the barbiturate type.

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Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona, with 1,608,139 residents as of 2020.

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Presbyterianism

Presbyterianism is a Reformed (Calvinist) Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders.

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Prometheus Books

Prometheus Books is a publishing company founded in August 1969 by the philosopher Paul Kurtz (who was also the founder of the Council for Secular Humanism, Center for Inquiry, and co-founder of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry).

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Pseudonym

A pseudonym or alias is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym).

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Queen's University Belfast

The Queen's University of Belfast, commonly known as Queen's University Belfast (Ollscoil na Banríona; abbreviated Queen's or QUB), is a public research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

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Rancho Santa Fe, California

Rancho Santa Fe is a census-designated place (CDP) in San Diego County, California, United States, within the San Diego metropolitan area.

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Randy Weaver

Randall Claude Weaver (January 3, 1948 – May 11, 2022) was an American survivalist.

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Rapture

The Rapture is an eschatological position held by some Christians, particularly those of American evangelicalism, consisting of an end-time event when all dead Christian believers will be resurrected and, joined with Christians who are still alive, together will rise "in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air." The origin of the term extends from the First Epistle to the Thessalonians in the Bible, which uses the Greek word (ἁρπάζω), meaning "to snatch away" or "to seize".

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Reincarnation

Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death.

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Religion (journal)

Religion is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of Religious studies, edited by the religion academic scholars Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Richard Bach

Richard David Bach (born June 23, 1936) is an American writer.

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Rick Alan Ross

Rick Alan Ross (b. 1952) is an American deprogrammer, cult specialist, and founder and executive director of the nonprofit Cult Education Institute.

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Robert Balch

Robert William Balch is a sociologist from the University of Montana.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Ronin Publishing

Ronin Publishing, Inc. is a small press in Berkeley, California, founded in 1983 and incorporated in 1985, which publishes books as tools for personal development, visionary alternatives, and expanded consciousness.

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Ruby Ridge standoff

Ruby Ridge was the site of a siege of a cabin occupied by the Weaver family in Boundary County, Idaho, in August 1992.

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Salon.com

Salon is an American politically progressive and liberal news and opinion website created in 1995.

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San Diego

San Diego is a city on the Pacific Ocean coast in Southern California located immediately adjacent to the Mexico–United States border.

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San Diego County Sheriff's Department

The San Diego County Sheriff's Department (SDSD), is the primary and largest law enforcement agency in San Diego County, California, and one of the largest sheriff's departments in the United States: with over 4,000 employees, an annual budget of over $960 million, and a service area over 4,500 square miles extending to a 60-mile international border.

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Satan

Satan, also known as the Devil, is an entity in Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin or falsehood.

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Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live sketch comedy variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Michaels and Dick Ebersol that airs on NBC and streams on Peacock.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Sheilaism

Sheilaism is a shorthand term for an individual's system of religious belief which co-opts strands of multiple religions chosen by the individual usually without much theological consideration.

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The social environment, social context, sociocultural context or milieu refers to the immediate physical and social setting in which people live or in which something happens or develops.

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Solfège

In music, solfège or solfeggio, also called sol-fa, solfa, solfeo, among many names, is a mnemonic used in teaching aural skills, pitch and sight-reading of Western music.

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St. Louis

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Star Trek

Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon.

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Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew.

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State University of New York

The State University of New York (SUNY) is a system of public colleges and universities in the State of New York.

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Studio City, Los Angeles

Studio City is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, United States, in the southeast San Fernando Valley, just west of the Cahuenga Pass.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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Telepathy

Telepathy is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction.

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Television film

A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie, telefilm, telemovie or TV film/movie, is a feature-length film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a television network, in contrast to theatrical films made for initial showing in movie theaters, and direct-to-video films made for initial release on home video formats.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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The Baltimore Sun

The Baltimore Sun is the largest general-circulation daily newspaper based in the U.S. state of Maryland and provides coverage of local, regional, national, and international news.

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The Christian Century

The Christian Century is a Christian magazine based in Chicago, Illinois.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The San Diego Union-Tribune

The San Diego Union-Tribune is a metropolitan daily newspaper published in San Diego, California, that has run since 1868.

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The Santa Clarita Valley Signal

The Santa Clarita Valley Signal is a newspaper in Santa Clarita, California.

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The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times is an American daily newspaper based in Seattle, Washington.

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Theology

Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity.

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Theosophy

Theosophy is a religious and philosophical system established in the United States in the late 19th century. Heaven's Gate (religious group) and Theosophy are religious belief systems founded in the United States.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Tokyo subway sarin attack

The was an act of domestic terrorism perpetrated on 20 March 1995, in Tokyo, Japan, by members of the cult movement Aum Shinrikyo.

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Transhuman

Transhuman, or trans-human, is the concept of an intermediary form between human and posthuman.

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Two witnesses

The two witnesses are two literary figures who are mentioned in Revelation 11:1-14.

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UFO religion

A UFO religion is any religion in which the existence of extraterrestrial (ET) entities operating unidentified flying objects (UFOs) is an element of belief. Heaven's Gate (religious group) and UFO religion are UFO religions.

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Ufology

Ufology is the investigation of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) by people who believe that they may be of extraordinary origins (most frequently of extraterrestrial alien visitors).

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Unidentified flying object

An unidentified flying object (UFO), or unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP), is any perceived airborne, submerged or transmedium phenomenon that cannot be immediately identified or explained.

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United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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University of California Press

The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.

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University of St. Thomas (Texas)

The University of St.

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Verso Books

Verso Books (formerly New Left Books) is a left-wing publishing house based in London and New York City, founded in 1970 by the staff of New Left Review (NLR) and includes Tariq Ali and Perry Anderson on its board of directors.

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Vice Media Group LLC is a Canadian-American digital media and broadcasting company.

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Vice News

Vice News (stylized as VICE News) is Vice Media's alternative current affairs channel, producing daily documentary essays and video through its website and YouTube channel.

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Vintage Books

Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing imprint of Penguin Random House originally established by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954.

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Vodka

Vodka (wódka; водка; vodka) is a clear distilled alcoholic beverage.

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Waldport, Oregon

Waldport is a city in Lincoln County, Oregon, United States.

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Walk-in (concept)

A walk-in is a New Age concept of a person whose original soul has departed their body and has been replaced with a new, different, soul.

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Walter Cronkite

Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years, from 1962 to 1981.

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XXL (magazine)

XXL is an American hip hop magazine, published by Townsquare Media, founded in 1997.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven's_Gate_(religious_group)

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