In 1991 NCR Corporation / AT & T ( now Alcatel-Lucent and LSI Corporation ) invented the precursor to 802. 11 in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands.

The Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond ( Royal Dutch Cricket Board ), which controls cricket in the Netherlands, is based in Nieuwegein.

The free-electron laser FELIX at the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands.

Nieuwegein was founded on 1 July 1971 as a planned city, following the merger of the former municipalities of Jutphaas and Vreeswijk.

However Connexxion also runs the light-rail line from Utrecht to Nieuwegein that was built around 1980 but has roots in the steam-tram era.

Romke Jan Bernhard Sloot ( 27 August 1945, Groningen — 11 July 1999, Nieuwegein ) was a Dutch electronics technician, who claimed to have developed a revolutionary data compression technique, the Sloot Digital Coding System, which could compress a complete movie down to 8 kilobytes of data — this is orders of magnitude greater compression than the best currently available technology.

He died in Nieuwegein at age 87, and after his funeral services in St. Catharine's Cathedral, was buried at St. Barbara's cemetery, next to his predecessor.

Besides bus services, it also operates the train lines Almelo-Mariënberg and Amersfoort-Ede-Wageningen, the tram line between Utrecht and Nieuwegein ( until December 2011 ), a few ferry routes and a taxi service.

To the west, Houten has its own exit from the A27 motorway, and the N409 ( single carriageway with bus lane ) runs from Houten to Nieuwegein.

IJsselstein is a major commuting suburb for the Utrecht area, along with neighbouring new towns Houten and Nieuwegein.

Nieuwegein is a municipality and city in the Dutch province of Utrecht.

Nieuwegein is surrounded by three Motorways ( Dutch: autosnelweg ), the A2 to the west, the A12 to the north and the A27 to the east.

Nieuwegein is connected to Utrecht and IJsselstein by light rail.

Three canals flow through Nieuwegein: the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal, the Lek River and the Merwede Canal.

Image: 2007-06-02 15. 23 Nieuwegein, ophaalbrug. JPG | Nieuwegein, drawbridge

Image: Nieuwegein, molen foto2 2010-07-04 17. 32. JPG | Nieuwegein, windmill

* The cities of Almere, Capelle aan den IJssel, Haarlemmermeer ( also a reclaimed polder, 19th century ), Nieuwegein, Purmerend and Zoetermeer are members of the European New Town Platform.

The cities of Almere, Capelle aan den IJssel, Haarlemmermeer ( also a reclaimed polder, 19th century ), Nieuwegein, Purmerend and Zoetermeer are members of the European New Town Platform.

Its course follows a generally southeasterly direction as it goes through the city of Utrecht towards Wijk bij Duurstede where it intersects the Lek branch of the Rhine and then continues on to the Waal river near Tiel, with a branch, the Lek Canal, to the Lek near Nieuwegein.

A branch of this canal, the Lekkanaal ( Lek Canal ) is connected to the river at the town of Nieuwegein.

The former main altar of the hermitage church in Warfhuizen in the Netherlands with a mural of Anthony the Abbot and a reliquary with some of his relic s. Since then they have been moved to a new golden shrine on a side-altar especially made for them.

* Centre Democrats ( Netherlands ), a former political party of the Netherlands

# Reformed congregations ( congregations of the former Reformed Churches in the Netherlands )

Only those congregations belonging to the former Reformed Churches in the Netherlands have the legal right to secede from the PKN without losing its property and church during a transition period of 10 years.

* Province of Limburg ( 1815 – 1839 ), province of the former United Kingdom of the Netherlands

The Evoluon is a conference centre and former science museum erected by the electronics and electrical company Philips in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in 1966.

* Netherlands, from their former International Olympic Committee country code

Inter IKEA Holding, in turn, belongs to an identically named company in the former Netherlands Antilles that is run by a trust company based in Curaçao.

* Province of Limburg ( 1815 – 1839 ), a former province of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands

* 1999 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.

A centuries-old tradition of legal scholarship has made the Netherlands the home of the International Court of Justice ; the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal ; the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ; the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ; and the International Criminal Court ( ICC ).

In the last few years drug tourism and certain strains of cannabis with higher concentrations of THC have challenged the former policy in the Netherlands and led to a more restrictive approach ; for example, a ban on selling cannabis to tourists in coffee shops suggested to start late 2011.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of the former Netherlands Antilles, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Short track speed skating had little following in the long track speed skating countries of Europe, such as Norway, the Netherlands and the former Soviet Union, with none of these nations having won official medals ( though the Netherlands won two gold medals when the sport was a demonstration event in 1988 ).

The former Dutch colony of Netherlands East Indies (" Nederlands-Indië ", now Indonesia ) has left its mark on The Hague.

Many streets are named after places in the Netherlands East Indies ( as well as other former Dutch colonies such as Suriname ) and there is a sizable " Indo " ( i. e. mixed Dutch-Indonesian ) community.

Most recently, on 1 March 2009, a U. N. tribunal to investigate and prosecute suspects in the 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri opened in the former headquarters of the Netherlands General Intelligence Agency in Leidschendam, a town within the greater The Hague area.

** Koninklijke TNT Post, the former national postal company in the Netherlands, succeeded by PostNL

Rudbeck, one of several sons of Johannes Rudbeckius, a former Uppsala professor who became Bishop of Västerås, was sent for a year to the progressive University of Leiden in the Netherlands.

* United States of Belgium, a former confederation of the Southern Netherlands which existed in 1790

The university is rated as the best university in the Netherlands by both the Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2011 and the Shanghai Ranking of World Universities 2012, and ranked as the 12th best European university and the 68th best university of the world by the former ranking and 12th best European university and 53th best of the world by the latter.

The bill-tabled by Independent MP Ralph Regenvanu and supported by Prime Minister Edward Natapei and opposition leader Maxime Carlot Korman-committed Vanuatu to recognising West Papua's independence ; to seeking observer status for West Papua in the Melanesian Spearhead Group and in the Pacific Islands Forum ; and to " request Nations General Assembly support for the International Court of Justice to provide an advisory opinion on the process in which the former Netherlands New Guinea was ceded to Indonesia in the 1960s ".

It was created from parts of the former provinces of Calaisis, formerly English, Boulonnais, Ponthieu and Artois, this last formerly part of the Spanish Netherlands.