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The Manhattan Athletic Club, once located on the southeast corner of Madison Avenue and 45th street, was, in its brief period, one of the most exclusive and successful athletic clubs in the nation. In 1898, Into that aristocratic environment came a story of intrigue, a love triangle, patent medicines, and a trial of the century for murder most foul.
More Essex class aircraft carriers were built than any other capital ship in the 20th century, and the class would be witness to events that would come to define the modern world, and the age of the aircraft carrier.
The Reconquista, or Christian reconquest of Iberia, took nearly 800 years. The fighting did not come without great attempts by Muslim powers across the strait trying to reestablish their presence in mainland Europe. The last gasp of that effort came in the 1330s, when the powerful Marinid sultanate of what is modern Morocco invaded in an attempt to reverse Christian gains and secure the perilous position of the Sultanate of Granada.
