It has become an Aboriginal campfire classic. Kids in American inner-city public schools sing it in choir. Chris Gibson unpacks the mystery and enduring appeal of The Church’s Under the Milky Way.
The Hebridean island of Scalpay, near Harris, where around 80% of locals are Gaelic speakers.
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The mix-up might be explained by the rush to remove sacred remains to Rome some 1,700 years ago.
The freedom to choose one’s clothes is key to sartorial experimentation. In the late 1920s, the Catholic Register wrote that these swimsuits were indecent.
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