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.

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 ...

The AOD is an equator crossing ritual which has been performed for over 400 years. It is a symbolic death and rebirth of polliwogs (those who have not crossed the equator) into shellbacks ...

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