Elizabeth Woodcock Memorial

On 2nd February 1799, Elizabeth Woodcock was riding home to Histon from Cambridge market when in a raging blizzard (and apparently a little worse for drink) she came off her horse and was soon buried alive under the heavy snow. Trapped for eight days, she was finally...

Jack The Horse Courser

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Gee Ho Dobbin

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“My Alma Martyr (sic)” by Philip Mayne

No hallowed halls, no leafy ways No cloistered strolls no verdant fields Just concrete paths and freezing rain With a long walk there, then back again And, late each day, I’d get the cane From teachers freshly back from slaying The men who’d just laid down their guns...

Get the last rows updated in a database

When debugging applications, it can be useful to see what’s going on in the database without referring to the code. In MySQL, you can use the information_schema database to get this information. here’s what I do: Select table_name, table_rows, update_time...