But in 1998, eight years after PPI collapsed, four companies - the Marangos Hotel Company, Pharos Estates, Sedigep and Cyprus Ports Authority - took legal action against PPI's administrators.

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As far back as 261BC, Ptolemy I started building the Pharos of Alexandria, standing over 400 feet tall with an open bonfire that could be seen 29 nautical miles away.

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While installing the Pharos Global Positioning System (GPS) unit reviewed below, I needed to copy a 10MB file to the Cassiopeia, but its 16MB of RAM didn't offer enough free space.

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