Category Archives: 19th Century

No Cinco De Mayo

Two days ago my brother-in-law and I put the dock in the lake. The water temperature was 62 and the sunny air hit 72, which was warm for Southern Maine. David and I went into the water with trepidation, but it wasn’t so bad once we were in the lake. Coming out was another thing. [...]

Nyet Gay In Russia

The Russian criminal code in 1832 “muzhelozhstvo” or men lying with men a criminal act punishable by exile to Siberia for up to 5 years according the Wikipedia. The police rarely arrested men for this crime against nature, since the hunger that dare not speak its name was reserved for the upper classes of Tsarist [...]

Oh You Roue

‎ “The only horrible thing in the world is ennui, Dorian. That is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness.” Lord Henry Wotton explains to a young Dorian Gray in Oscar Wilde’s PORTRAIT OF DORIAN GRAY

The Great Disappointment

This world was a cesspool of sin for Christians in the early 19th Century. The powers of Satan threatened the souls of the White Race through race mixing. Women’s demand for equality was an attack on the eternal domination of men over the weaker sex. Children were losing their religion and the United States was [...]