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  • The settlement makes PPH Investments 'Eric Blum, who also is the leader of Philadelphia investment management firm ELB Capital Management, the new chairman of Pitcairn's board of directors.

    Mortgages Spur 2010

  • McCoy fights back a potential mutiny on the stricken ship and tells what happened to the Bounty crewman on Pitcairn's in 1787, killing each other and their native wives so that at the end of two years all had been murdered save four men.

    “Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, . . . .” 2008

  • From the slippery to the gripping, "The Seed of McCoy" (The Century Magazine, April, 1909) is a splendid, rousing South Seas tale about the Pyrenees, an iron sailing ship which comes to Pitcairn's Island flying a distress signal and with a cargo of wheat burning in her hold.

    “Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, . . . .” 2008

  • Charging documents show the couple later bragged about the crime, and that bloody shoes, a wallet and Pitcairn's iPhone were found in their nearby home.

    Couple indicted in Baltimore killing 2010

  • McCoy, chief magistrate and governor of Pitcairn's and grandson of one of the Bounty mutineers, comes aboard from an outrigger and tells Captain Davenport there is no beach or anchorage on Pitcairn's and that he should have "slacked away for Mangareva," 300 miles distant.

    “Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, . . . .” 2008

  • The dispute, court papers show, stems from Pitcairn's inability to make a $50 million redemption payment and four quarters 'worth of dividend payments when these obligations came due this past June to PPH Investments, the firm's sole preferred shareholder.

    Mortgages Spur 2010

  • In October 2004, more than one-quarter of Pitcairn's small labor force was arrested, putting the economy in a bind, since their services were required as lighter crew to load or unload passing ships.

    Pitcairn Islands 2008

  • Chris, Night Shade supposedly started shipping three weeks ago, so you'd think it would be everywhere but Pitcairn's Island by now.

    Available! Walter Jon Williams 2008

  • Apparently this takes about a week longer than to Pitcairn's Island.

    Available! Walter Jon Williams 2008

  • In October 2004, more than one-quarter of Pitcairn's small labor force was arrested, putting the economy in a bind, since their services were required as lighter crew to load or unload passing ships.

    Economy-overview 2008

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