All in Good Fun?
By Eleri Grace
Even a war didn’t
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All in Good Fun?
By Eleri Grace
Even a war didn’t
stop crew and passengers from participating in a naval tradition dating back
centuries: the Crossing the Line ceremony. Tradition held that as a ship
approached the equator, those who had made the crossing before, trusty “shellbacks,”
initiate equator-crossing virgins or “tadpoles” (I replaced the actual term
used for the initiates,
By Eleri Grace
Even a war didn’t
stop crew and passengers from participating in a naval tradition dating back
centuries: the Crossing the Line ceremony. Tradition held that as a ship
approached the equator, those who had made the crossing before, trusty “shellbacks,”
initiate equator-crossing virgins or “tadpoles” (I replaced the actual term
used for the initiates,
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