The Stain is a 1984 novel of sexuality and religion by Rikki Ducornet, set in France's Loire Valley in the nineteenth century.
The Human Stain | The Adventure of the Second Stain | Port-wine stain | naevus flammeus aka "port-wine stain" variety | '''Masson's trichrome''' stain of rat airway. Connective tissue | Masson's trichrome stain | Hoechst stain | Grocott's methenamine silver stain |
The New York Times pointedly noted that on the same day as McDonald's Jefferson Lecture, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall gave a speech criticizing "complacent belief" in the perfection of the Constitution, given the stain of slavery.