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Housing Units (2000): 1901
Land area (2000): 0.535242 sq. miles (1.386271 sq. km)
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Total area (2000): 0.535242 sq. miles (1.386271 sq. km)
FIPS code: 60712
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 40.405768 N, 79.776434 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 15140
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Headwords:
Pitcairn
Wikipedia
Pitcairn may refer to:
- Pitcairn Islands, in the South Pacific
- Pitcairn's Island (novel), a novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
- Pitcairn, New York, United States
- Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, United States
- Pitcairn Aircraft Inc Mailplane and Autogyro manufacturer
- Pitcairn (play), a play by Richard Bean
- Pitcairn (schooner), a schooner launched in 1890 that sailed in the South Pacific
- HMS Pitcairn (K589), a United Kingdom frigate
- Robert Pitcairn (commendator) (1520?–1584), Scottish diplomat and judge
- John Pitcairn (1722–1775), British marine officer during the American Revolutionary War
- His son, Robert Pitcairn (midshipman) (1752–1770?), Royal Navy midshipman and first European to spot Pitcairn Island
- Robert Pitcairn (antiquary) (1793–1855) was a British antiquary
- Robert Pitcairn (1836–1909), Scottish-American railroad executive
- John Pitcairn, Jr. (1841–1916), Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist
- Harold Frederick Pitcairn (1897–1960), aviation pioneer
- Richard Pitcairn (b. 1941), homeopathic veterinarian
Pitcairn is a 2014 play by the English playwright Richard Bean, based on the Mutiny on the Bounty and the colonisation of the Pitcairn Islands. It is a co-production between the Chichester Festival Theatre (at whose Minerva auditorium it will premiere from 22 August to 20 September 2014), Shakespeare's Globe (where it will transfer from 22 September to 11 October 2014) and Out of Joint.
After its Chichester and London runs, it will go on a regional tour to the Plymouth Theatre Royal, the Warwick Arts Centre, the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Devonshire Park Theatre, the Oxford Playhouse and Malvern Theatres between 14 October and 22 November 2014.
Usage examples of "pitcairn".
I have relied heavily on the book the expedition produced, The Pitcairn Islands: Biogeograpky, Ecology and Prehistory, edited by Tim Benton and Tom Spencer, for information about Henderson Island.
From 1991 to 1992, a team of scientists under the aegis of the Sir Peter Scott Commemorative Expedition to the Pitcairn Islands se: up abase camp on the north heach of Henderson Island-almost exacdv where the Essex survivors landed more than 170 years earlier.
Pitcairn had left immediately after dinner for a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Northern Westchester Taxpayers' Association, at somebody's house in North Salem, and had returned shortly before midnight and gone to bed.
If, at times, in the Pitcairn narrative, blood flows over-freely, and horror seems to pile on horror, it is not because the authors would have it so: it was so, in Pitcairn history.