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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of eastern Netherlands on the lower Rhine River east-southeast of Utrecht. In World War II British airborne troops suffered a major defeat here in September 1944.
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- noun a city in the central Netherlands on the lower Rhine River; site of a battle in 1944 during World War II
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Two years later Captain Zaachen is said to have sailed along the north coast, which he called Arnhem
History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 George Sutherland 1880
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I saw him live in Arnhem once, and those pleather leopardskin pants never ever looked this tight on anyone!
request to all my girlfriends nathreee 2010
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Willy Weerkamp, until recently the public prosecutor of the Military Justice Chamber in Arnhem: "Nothing was ever reported to us, we have never had anything like it reported to us."
Tarred with the same brush? Richard 2006
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Dutch citizens returned to their homes in Arnhem the next year, they recovered remains from the Skytrain's wreckage and buried them in
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Dutch citizens returned to their homes in Arnhem the next year, they recovered remains from the Skytrain's wreckage and buried them in
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Dutch citizens returned to their homes in Arnhem the next year, they recovered remains from the Skytrain's wreckage and buried them in
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Dutch citizens returned to their homes in Arnhem the next year, they recovered remains from the Skytrain's wreckage and buried them in
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However, I felt it was necessary to gain surprise, therefore decided to change the point of attack, as General Simonds had cleared the right bank of the Issel, I decided to put my attack in at Westervoort and to take Arnhem from the right.
The Last Canadian Battle and the Surrender of the Germany Army 1945
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New Guinea, Captain Jan Carstens, of the ARNHEM, and eight of his crew were murdered by the natives, but the vessels proceeded, and touched upon the north coast of New Holland, west of the Gulf of Carpentaria, still known as Arnhem's Land.
The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 Ernest Favenc 1876
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There will be nights spent in Eindhoven, Brussels and Nijmegen, and emotion-filled days taken up with visits to war cemeteries and towns such as Arnhem, Best,
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