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摘要

Among the incessant onslaught of information from every direction at almost every hour of every day, it is sometimes astonishing and certainly refreshing-like a bell in the fog-that the distant past can still make headlines. Watercraft play sophisticated roles in many of these reports, often showing, as William Faulkner famously observed, that "The past is never dead. It's not even past."