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Northern England roughly coincides with the statistical regions of North East England, North West England and Yorkshire and the Humber, which have a combined population of 14.9 million as of the 2011 Census. It contains much of England's national parkland as well as the conurbations of Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Teesside, Tyneside, Wearside, and South and West Yorkshire. Until the unification of Britain under the Stuarts, the area experienced Anglo-Scottish border fighting. Many of the innovations of the Industrial Revolution began in Northern England, and its cities were the crucibles of many of the political changes that accompanied this social upheaval, from trade unionism to Manchester Capitalism. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the economy of the North was dominated by heavy industry such as weaving, shipbuilding, steelmaking and mining, but deindustrialisation in the late 20th century hit hard. Urban renewal projects and the transition to a service economy have resulted in strong economic growth in some areas, but a North–South divide remains in both the economy and the culture of England. (Full article...)

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Still Life: Vanitas, by Jan Davidsz. de Heem

... that the largest theft in Canadian history occurred 45 years ago today, when jewellery and 18 paintings (example pictured) were stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts?
... that Alexander S. Wolcott and John Johnson opened the first commercial photography portrait studio in the world?
... that after appearing in more than 50 films, Priyanka Chopra's first-ever audition was for the American television series Quantico?
... that thousands of Jews fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War?
... that Liberian labor leader Amos Gray became involved in labor activism while being a part-time port worker during his college years?
... that the social thriller film genre has been popularized in the United States by Get Out director Jordan Peele and in India by Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan?
... that Geneve L. A. Shaffer, known as the "Skyscraper Girl", was the United States' first woman glider pilot?
... that Pachycondyla succinea queens were first described in 1868, but males were not described until 2009?

In the news

Uhuru Kenyatta (left) and Raila Odinga

Monsoon flooding kills nearly 1,300 people and affects 45 million others in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh.
North Korea conducts its sixth nuclear test.
The Supreme Court of Kenya rules that the country's presidential election (candidates pictured) was conducted improperly, nullifying its results and ordering a new election within 60 days.
In boxing, Floyd Mayweather Jr. defeats Conor McGregor.
The Women's Rugby World Cup concludes with New Zealand defeating England in the final.
Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas, causing severe flooding and at least 48 fatalities.

On this day...

September 4: Labour Day in Canada and Labor Day in the United States (2017)

Pedro II of Brazil and Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies

476 – Germanic leader Odoacer captured Ravenna, the capital of the Western Roman Empire, and deposed Emperor Romulus Augustus.
1774 – British explorer James Cook became the first European to sight the island of New Caledonia.
1843 – Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies married Pedro II of Brazil (both pictured) at a state ceremony.
1957 – Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent nine African American students from attending Little Rock Central High School.
2007 – Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda were arrested in Germany after planning attacks on both Frankfurt Airport and Ramstein Air Base.

Anna of Trebizond (d. 1342) · Sushilkumar Shinde (b. 1941) · Steve Irwin (d. 2006)

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The Battle of San Domingo, 6 February 1806, with H.M.S. Canopus Joining the Action, Thomas Lyde Hornbrook

The Atlantic campaign of 1806 was one of the most important and complex naval campaigns of the post-Trafalgar Napoleonic Wars. Seeking to take advantage of the withdrawal of British forces from the Atlantic in the aftermath of the Battle of Trafalgar, Emperor Napoleon ordered two battle squadrons to sea from the fleet stationed at Brest, during December 1805. Escaping deep into the Atlantic, these squadrons succeeded in disrupting British convoys, evading pursuit by British battle squadrons and reinforcing the French garrison at Santo Domingo. The period of French success was brief: on 6 February 1806 one of the squadrons, under Vice-Admiral Corentin Urbain Leissègues, was intercepted by a British squadron at the Battle of San Domingo and destroyed, losing all five of its ships of the line. The second French squadron, under Vice-Admiral Jean-Baptiste Willaumez, cruised in the South Atlantic and the Caribbean during the spring and summer of 1806, conducting several successful raids on British islands in the West Indies. The campaign included a number of subsidiary operations by both British and French ships. (Full list...)

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Young Knight in a Landscape is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Vittore Carpaccio. Dated 1510, it has been called the earliest full-length portrait in Western painting. The identity of its subject has been debated, with proposed sitters including the Duke of Urbino, Francesco Maria I della Rovere; as well as the Venetian patrician Marco Gabriel. It is now held by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.

Painting: Vittore Carpaccio

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