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Pestana Equador or the Equador Resort Mark of the Equator erected by Gago Coutinho southwest of the resort and the view of São Tomé Island. The Pestana Equador is a beach resort on the Ilhéu das Rolas, at the southern tip of São Tomé and Príncipe. [1] It is owned and operated by the Pestana Group of hotels and resorts.
The line-crossing ceremony is an initiation rite in some English-speaking countries that commemorates a person's first crossing of the equator. [1] The tradition may have originated with ceremonies when passing headlands, and become a "folly" sanctioned as a boost to morale, [2] or have been created as a test for seasoned sailors to ensure their new shipmates were capable of handling long ...
Long Beach — no, not Venice — stars in Olympics closing ceremony with Snoop, Dr. Dre, Billie Eilish. Jack Dolan. August 11, 2024 at 7:16 PM.
Unlike the ambitious opening ceremony, the closing ceremony will take a more traditional route. Rather than the open-air venue of the Seine River, the closing ceremony will be held in the 80,000 ...
The closing ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics took place on February 28, 2010, beginning at 5:30 pm PST (01:30 UTC, March 1) at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It was the first Olympic Closing Ceremony held in an indoor venue since the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo .
The closing ceremony has turned into a sing-along to “Freed from Desire” by Gala -- with fans and athletes jumping up and down as lyrics to the song are shown on video screens. An 80,000 fan ...
Tom Cruise brought some movie magic to the 2024 Paris Olympics closing ceremony.. The action star, who’s currently filming Mission: Impossible 8, executed the much buzzed-about “epic stunt ...
Live broadcast: Canada: CTV After the host nation's TV broadcaster, CTV, received criticism for initially not planning to air the opening ceremony live and did an about face to air the ceremony live in Vancouver region while broadcasting the ceremony on tape delay in rest of the country, CTV continued to stick to its initial plan of not airing the closing ceremony live.