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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_Review>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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