Navy Vet Describes Line-Crossing Ceremony That Looks Like Torture in Vintage Photos: 'It Was Fun at the Time' A U.S. Navy spokesperson tells PEOPLE marking a ship’s passage across the equator ...

Drawing from 32 years and seven-plus books of poems, Crossing the Equator: New and Selected Poems 1972-2004 offers broad swaths of Nicholas Christopher's peripatetic career.

they cross the magnetic equator.” Fortunately, although the outer edge of the plasmasphere is typically around 26,000 – 32,000 km above the Earth, it does move inward during periods of ...

It was picture week at the White House. Harry Truman saw and heard himself in newsreels taken during his trip to Rio, re-enjoyed the horseplay of his Equator crossing. After lunch each day, the ...

At the equator are signs that say, "You are now crossing the equator. Jambo (hello in Swahili) to Kenya. Altitude 2,270 meters." ...