312:. This is a perplexing case. As noted above, no French Knowledge article exists for the subject, nor have any reliable French sources been found. The article was created by an account with no other edits, and subsequently edited by a user who had nearly no edit history outside this article and, one year later, attempted three times to blank the page with the edit summary "Content no longer accurate or relevant." (Further history on the background of this incident appears at
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The part that might be sourceable is the murals on the ocean liners. I haven;t found anything yet, however.
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