Cunaxa
Cunaxa , ancient town of Babylonia, near the Euphrates River, NE of Ctesiphon. It was the scene of a battle (401 BC) between Cyrus the Younger and Artaxerxes II , described by Xenophon in the Anabasis. Clearchus , Spartan mercenary leader under Cyrus, chose to attack the Persian left wing (under Tissaphernes), which he completely routed and pursued. When he and his Ten Thousand returned, they found that Cyrus had fought hard in the center, had broken Artaxerxes' bodyguard, but in the moment of victory had been killed. Cyrus' army, demoralized, had broken up, and the Persians had taken the field. The retreat of the Ten Thousand northward is the most famous feature of the campaign.
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BRIGHT LIGHTS: CLASSICAL MUSIC
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 6/8/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Dohnanyi, Robert Spano, Jeffrey Tate, Charles Dutoit, Edo de Waart, Sir Neville Marriner...Hamish Milne, and the radiant Klara Wurtz, who made her debut with the Boston Symphony...The Universe Below"), composer Bruce Adolphe, the Borromeo Quartet, and other prominent...
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Charles Adolphe Wurtz
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Charles Adolphe Wurtz , 1817-84, French chemist. He was...treating alkyl halides with sodium (Wurtz reaction) that was adapted by the German...aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons (Wurtz-Fittig reaction). Wurtz also invented...
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Couper, Archibald Scott
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...independent research in the laboratory of Charles Adolphe Wurtz. His first publication —...1858. Early in 1858 Couper asked Wurtz to have presented before the French...New Chemical Theory. ” Wurtz, not a member of the Academy...
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Gautier, Armand E.-J.
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...supported the ideas of Charles Gerhardt, who had taught...the Paris laboratory of Adolphe Wurtz. His isolation in 1866...Influenced, however, by Wurtz ’ s researches...and in 1884 he succeeded Wurtz in the chair of medical...
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Le Bel, Joseph-Achille
Book article from: Chemistry: Foundations and Applications
...French chemists Antoine Balard and Adolphe Wurtz in Paris, in between intermediate...with whom Le Bel had worked in Wurtz's laboratory shortly beforehand...Scientific Biography, Vol. VIII, ed. Charles C. Gillispie. New York: Scribners...
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Cleve, Per Theodor
Book article from: Chemistry: Foundations and Applications
...Paris Cleve visited the research laboratory of chemist Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817 – 1884). The laboratory was unique...young chemists, and here Cleve made many friends. Wurtz drew Cleve's attention to complex metal compounds...
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