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Hércules arqueiro (Hercules the Archer) by Antoine Bourdelle, Middleheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium

Since the 1700s, crossing the equator on a ship has merited an initiation ceremony for sailors who have not "crossed the line" before. Here, aboard the submarine USS Narwhal in 1940, a pollywog is required to crawl through a gauntlet of shellbacks while being sprayed by a firehose. (In the U.S., sailors who have previously crossed the line are shellbacks; first-timers are pollywogs.)

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MAX ON THE BEACH Elizabeth Wilson, Maxwell Caulfield and Jessica Tandy in the NY Shakespeare Festival production of Salonika (1985) ... Frank Rich in the NEW YORK TIMES, April 3, 1985: In the opening minutes of Louise Page's Salonika, the new English play at the Public Theater, the audience's expectations are heightened by one arresting image after another. Even before the action begins, we see Andrew Jackness's inviting set - a twinkling white Grecian beach, its sand washed smooth by a recent tide. Soon the beach is occupied by a nude male body, sunning itself in the clear rays provided by the lighting designer Paul Gallo. The body, which belongs to the young actor Maxwell Caulfield, is undeniably suitable for exhibition ... This shot of Wilson and Caulfield ran in PEOPLE magazine ... Another shot of Caulfield and Wilson ...