The Analytical Review was a periodical established in London in 1788 by the publisher Joseph Johnson (pictured) and the writer Thomas Christie. Part of the Republic of Letters, it provided summaries and analyses of new publications and acted as a forum for radical political and religious ideas. Although it aimed at impartiality, its articles were often critical of the British government and supportive of the French revolutionaries. While the journal had low circulation numbers for its day, it still influenced popular opinion and was feared by the administration of William Pitt the Younger. Government supporters founded the Anti-Jacobin Review in 1797, which criticized the radical politics of the Analytical and monitored it for unpatriotic and irreligious sentiments. The Analytical Review focused on politics, philosophy, natural history, and literature. Its prominent writers (who signed their work with pseudonymous initials) included the poet William Cowper, the moralist William Enfield, the physician John Aikin, and the polemicist Mary Wollstonecraft. It suspended publication in December 1798 after Johnson was convicted of seditious libel and other contributors had died or retired.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1805:
Napoleonic Wars: Lord Nelson signalled "England expects that every man will do his duty" to the rest of his Royal Navy forces before they defeated Pierre-Charles Villeneuve and his combined French–Spanish navy at the Battle of Trafalgar off the coast of Spain's Cape Trafalgar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_expects_that_every_man_will_do_his_duty
1854:
Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to Turkey to help treat wounded British soldiers fighting in the Crimean War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale
1910:
HMS Niobe arrived in Halifax Harbour to become the first large ship of the Royal Canadian Navy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Niobe_(1897)
1944:
World War II: German forces surrendered to American troops, ending the three-week-long Battle of Aachen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Aachen
1978:
After reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft, Frederick Valentich disappeared in unexplained circumstances while piloting a Cessna 182L light aircraft over the Bass Strait to King Island, Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Frederick_Valentich
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
gleek: 1. (archaic) To jest, ridicule, or mock; to make sport of. 2. (informal) To discharge a thin stream of liquid through the teeth or from under the tongue. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gleek
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge