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Marlow
UKCITIES 
 * Marlow surrounded by a Cistercian Abbey at Medmenham, a nunnery at Little Marlow
 * High Street and West Street buildings are Georgian
 * Marlow Place built circa 1721 by John Wallop, 1st Earl of Portsmouth, was part of Royal Military College before it moved to Sandhurst in 1812
 * 14th century Old Parsonage and The Deanery
 * Roman Catholic Church of St. Peter 1846
 * Thames Lawn
 * Marlow Mills, modern housing estate built on former corn, paper, thimble and oil mills established in 1086
 * A church built in 12th century, demolish in 1802, is now All Saints Church
 * built 1835
 * chancel added 1867, galleries removed 1882, three-span roof added 1889
 * 170 foot high spire
 * constructed from Staffordshire brick and Bath stone
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 * War Memorial, World War I
 * George and Dragon
 * Edward John Gregory occupied Bampton House, 100 High Street from 1906 until his death in 1909
 * Suspension bridge built 1829-1832 added all this to Marlow Bridge
 * replaced wooden bridge further downstream which collapsed in 1828
 * main span is 235 feet

InterBase/Firebird
Jim Starkey (who had worked at DEC for almost 10 years) wrote Datatrieve, a query language that operated on flat files and DBMS-32 Another team at DEC began designing a relational database, rdb. Meanwhile, Jim began working on 'jrd' Apollo Computer, a local workstation company, contracted Jim, Ann Harrison (his wife), and Don DePalma to write a database Groton Database Systems was formed in 1984, and later changed its name to InterBase Beta version released about one year after formation Initial release supported Apollo Domain, Sun, HP/UX, VAX/VMS, Ultrix Jim came up with a "multi-generational architecture" (MVCC), which permitted transaction isolation, rollback and crash recovery Partnered with Ashton Tate in 1986, who also invested in Sybase. Ashton Tate were then bought out by Borland in October 1992

In late 1999, Dale Fuller, the interim CEO at Borland, announced that he intended to reduce the InterBase staff and budget. The InterBase product manager, Bill Karwin, and business manager Paul Beach, resigned shortly after.

InterBase became open source on 25th July 2000 http://www.prototypical.co.uk/pdf/Interbase.pdf "Unwilling to wait for Inprise to resolve difficulties resulting from the breakdown of negotiations to spin off a support company for OS InterBase®, open source coders set up their Firebird tree"

22 Dec 2000 Firebird 0.9 for Linux is released on Sourceforge

24-Jan-2006 v1.5.3 released Eventually supported AIX

v2.0 released 12 November 2006

v2.1 DB triggers Recursive queries MERGE

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Furze Platt

 * 1.25m north of Maidenhead
 * Developed in 1870s
 * First houses: switchback and cannon court
 * A308 runs through it
 * First shop: Cliveden Stores, 1894
 * Brick and Tile works, Pinkneys Green
 * St Peters Church consecrated 14th Apr 1898
 * Golden Harp pub

Marlow rail

 * Bourne End first called Marlow Road (opened 1 August 1854)
 * Bill lodged for 1865 session of parliament to extend wycombe railway to uxbridge and marlow
 * Bill withdrawn and another lodged for 1866, but withdrawn again due to objection from landowner and lack of support form GWR
 * Wycombe railway and GWR amalgamated 1st Feb 1867
 * Great Marlow Railway Act given Royal Assent on 13th July 1868, third bill was passed
 * Construction had started by March 1873
 * Line cost approx £23,500 formally opened 27th June
 * First timetable provided 10 trains each way
 * Marlow Road renamed to Bourne End 1st January 1873

Wikipedia Beta

 * Make "Help" menu two lines deeper to remove excessive scrolling
 * Don't use dropdown menu from top menu bar (for "Watch" and "*" (purge)) -- there's plenty of space for them

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Railway topics

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 * Railroad chronometer
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 * Classification yard
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 * Transfer table
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SVG-ing diagrams

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 * File:Diamond Crossing Dual Gauge Double Line.png
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 * File:Double Junction B with Ladders.png
 * File:Double Junction C with Single Lead.png
 * File:Double Junction D with Wide Centres.jpg
 * File:Double Junction E - with Flyover.jpg
 * File:Chatswood ECR 2005.jpg
 * File:Turnouts Facing & Trailing.jpg
 * File:SSFL Sefton Park Junctions.png
 * File:Diagram Tsumeb railway station 2007.jpg