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  Putnam County, New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1812, Putnam County was detached from Dutchess.
Governmental operations in Putnam County are outlined in the County Charter which was approved by the voters of the County in November 1977.
Putnam County is located in southeastern New York State, between the Hudson River on its west and the New York-Connecticut border on its east, south of Poughkeepsie, north of Peekskill.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Putnam_County,_New_York   (801 words)

  
 Hilary Putnam: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A twin earth thought experiment was first posed by philosopher hilary putnam in 1975 in order to argue for an externalist, as opposed to an internalist, epistemological...
Putnam and Saul Kripke[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] both made important contributions to what is known as the causal theory of reference.
Putnam has also made an argument that is regarded by some as a refutation of skepticism known as the Brain in a Vat Brain-in-a-vat quick summary:
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/hi/hilary_putnam.htm   (2143 words)

  
 Putnam, Israel on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Putnam was in command at the unhappy battle of Long Island (1776) and in 1777 lost forts Montgomery and Clinton in the Hudson Highlands to the British.
The `greatest voice in radio and TV': legendary broadcaster and newsman George Putnam, the voice of the American Everyman for almost seven decades, appeals to listeners on the left and the right.
Putnam County not in tune with hit musical: When it comes to competitive spelling, education no longer imitates art.
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 Jacobi, Mary Corinna Putnam - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Jacobi, Mary Corinna Putnam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
She worked at the Women's Medical College of the New York Infirmary for Women 1871–1889 and through her lectures, clinical practice, extensive publications, and varied organizational activities, she soon became recognized as the leading female physician in the USA.
She also was in the forefront of those recognizing the need to change social, working, and environmental conditions if the health of people was to be improved.
A suffragist, her ‘Common Sense’ Applied to Women's Suffrage 1894, was reprinted and used for the battle that eventually gained US women the vote.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Jacobi,+Mary+Corinna+Putnam   (205 words)

  
 Putnam, George Palmer, 1814-72, American publisher. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
A member of the New York City bookselling firm of Wiley and Putnam, he established a branch in London in 1841.
He was proprietor of Putnam’s Magazine (1853–57), which was revived for brief periods in 1868–71 and 1906–10.
George Haven Putnam and Herbert Putnam were his sons, and Mary Putnam Jacobi, a physician, was his daughter.
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