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Eindhoven is a municipality and a city in the south of the Netherlands, originally at the confluence of the Dommel and Gender streams. The Gender was dammed short of the city centre in the 1950s and the Dommel still runs through the city. The city has a population of 223,220 in January 2015, making it the fifth-largest municipality of the Netherlands and the largest in the province of North Brabant.

Neighbouring cities and towns include Son en Breugel, Nuenen, Geldrop-Mierlo, Heeze-Leende, Waalre, Veldhoven, Eersel, Oirschot and Best. The agglomeration has a population of . The metropolitan area consists of inhabitants. The city region has a population of 753,426. Also, Eindhoven is located in the Brabantse Stedenrij, a combined metropolitan area with about 2 million inhabitants.

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He would simply have to marry Margot in Eindhoven and leave for Paris immediately.

He had been regularly tuning in to test signals from a new shortwave radio transmitter in Eindhoven, Holland - now called Radio Hilversum, but in those days known simply as PCJJ, which was its call-sign.

Professor Balthasar Van der Pol, director of Telecommunications Research for Philips of Eindhoven, the giant electronics group.

I met Van der Pol, and we made some experiments at Eindhoven, but with negative results.

Appleton, in fact, did his own experiments using transmitters in England and Geneva - and he too heard distinct long-delayed echoes - delayed up to twenty-five seconds - during a radio transmission from Eindhoven in 1929.

The next few were from Eindhoven, three from Edinburgh, two from Aberdeen, then a British Airways flight from New York.

Yes, the man who ran away with the funds from the Lijnbaansgracht, and turned up next day drinking coffee on a terrace in Eindhoven, where, apparently, he thought he would be invisible.

She got into the car and headed it over towards Eindhoven, not knowing what she wanted.

Division accomplished most of their task, but a canal bridge on the road to Eindhoven was blown and they did not capture the town till the 18th.

The Guards Armoured Division of the XXXth Corps began to advance in the afternoon up the Eindhoven road, preceded by an artillery barrage and rocket-firing planes.

Nothing happened until October 11, when Hals phoned Stormer to say that Eindhoven had just come on the air, and he could hear 3-second echoes.

But he sent a telegram to van der Pol at Eindhoven, and the experiment was repeated that evening.

If Milch was looking for complaints, there was every reason to think that his inspection visit to KG 30, the Adler-Geschwader, at Gilze-Rijen and Eindhoven airfields in the Netherlands, delighted him.

The GIs, moving into Nijmegen and Eindhoven and their other objectives, started taking casualties.

Taylor’s 101/ Airborne Division was to capture canal and river crossings over a fifteen-mile stretch between Eindhoven and Veghel.