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Acknowledgments:
I thank Robert Sacré and Alan Balfour for putting at my disposal earlier publications. Ray Templeton, Paul Petraitis and John Clarke kindly pointed me to interesting song recordings.
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When I told my 12 year young daughter, Blijke, after having watched the Cameron block buster on the Titanic, that
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