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Daniel Defoe


昨天晚上我做了个梦,梦到我掉进一个无比巨大的大坑里,里面有好多好多吃的东西,我就不停的吃啊吃啊,结果我越吃越胖越吃越胖,慢慢的就把坑填满了,可是却被卡在坑里出不来了,然后我就喊啊喊啊,可是喊破了喉咙也没有人过来,就在我慢慢绝望的时候突然远处天边传来一声巨响,一只蒙牛驾着七色的云彩来到了我的面前,他给了我7个宝珠,告诉我他可以实现我的一个愿望,于是我实现了世界和平的愿望,可是 我却忘记我被卡在坑里还没有出来~~
Moving away from newspapers, let's now focus on magazines. Now, the first magazine was a little periodical called The Review, and it was started in London in 1704. It looked a lot like the newspapers of the time, but in terms of its content, it was much different. Newspapers were concerned mainly with news events, but The Review focused on important domestic issues of the day, as well as the policies of the government. Now, in England at the time, people could still be thrown in jail for publishing articles that were critical of the king. And that's what happened to Daniel Defoe - he was the outspoken founder of The Review. Defoe actually wrote the first issue of The Review from prison! You see, he had been arrested because of his writings that criticized the policies of the Church of England, which was headed by the king. After his release, Defoe continued to produce The Review, and the magazine started to appear on a more frequent schedule, about three times a week. It didn't take long for other magazines to start popping up, in 1709 a magazine called The Tatler began publication. This new magazine contained a mixture of news, poetry, political analysis, and philosophical essays.