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Dogs. And much more.

“Another action taken during the forced deportation was to kill off the area's dog population, … Sir Bruce Greatbatch, governor of the Seychelles, ordered all the dogs on Diego Garcia to be killed. More than 1000 pets were gassed.”

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March 21, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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Esther Sans Takeuchi is one of the most decorated women inventors in American history. Best known for helping develop the lithium/silver vanadium oxide (Li/SVO) battery, which dramatically extended the life of implantable pacemakers.

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Esther Sans Takeuchi (born 1953) is an American chemical engineer and inventor renowned for her groundbreaking work in battery technology, particularly in the development of compact, long-lasting batteries used in medical devices. Her innovations have saved countless lives and made her one of the most prolific female inventors in the United States. Takeuchi's most famous achievement came during her time at Greatbatch Inc., a company founded by pacemaker pioneer Wilson Greatbatch. There, she led the development of the lithium/silver vanadium oxide (Li/SVO) battery, which dramatically extended the life of implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICDs). This advancement meant fewer surgeries for patients and more reliable life-saving technology. Her innovation remains a gold standard for battery-powered medical implants. With more than 150 U.S. patents, Takeuchi is one of the most decorated women inventors in American history. She has received numerous honors, including the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2008, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. She currently serves as a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University and a chief scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Esther Sans Takeuchi's career is a powerful example of how engineering and chemistry can transform healthcare. Her visionary work has not only advanced science but also improved the quality of life for millions of people around the world.
September 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Series: Accidental History: The Hidden Flukes

Wilson Greatbatch created the implantable pacemaker by pulling the wrong resistor out of a drawer.

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September 30, 2026 at 3:06 AM
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Want some moralising with your tea? ‘Prodigal son’ teapot and cover, c. 1770–1782, William Greatbatch, Fenton, Potteries Museum and Art Gallery. One of many domestic items described in our new book Faith in the Town: academic.oup.com/book/59693
Tea pot with scenes of misery and excess on either side
March 4, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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"Sir Bruce Greatbatch, KCVO, CMG, MBE, governor of the Seychelles, ordered all the dogs on Diego Garcia to be killed. More than 1000 pets were gassed with exhaust fumes."
February 22, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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This is, I think, the most critical piece I’ve written about Warwickshire - and Birmingham - since the Greatbatch years. There are many good people doing many good things at the club. But the cricket is a mess.
August 8, 2026 at 7:06 AM
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FATHER TAKES A WALK (1935) — 9:00 am ET — 1h 19m
(TCM Daytime: Directed by William Beaudine)

Paul Graetz, Paul Greatbatch, Ralph Truman; directed by William Beaudine

A Jewish businessman leaves his job when his sons introduce modern technology.

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Father Takes a Walk (1935)
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June 11, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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Adventures in my juvenile sense of humor: I'm watching a YouTube video and they referenced a paper by Dr Greatbatch and I laughed so loud I woke Weenie up. I blame MST3K.
August 1, 2024 at 7:34 PM
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Alison Greatbatch casuals
January 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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I mean I have been excited about Kiwi cricket since 92. Greatbatch and Deepak Patel and all.
October 5, 2023 at 1:49 PM
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Featuring Mike Greatbatch & Eric Larkham of the Ouseburn Trust
October 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Scene 13 - Jane Austen’s Odyssey

1811

Sense & Sensibility is finally published.

Jane reflects on her lengthy journey to publication with Charle’s wife Fanny, visiting from Bermuda.

Fanny reveals that her brother has been captive in France for 8 years.
Illustration by Hugh Thomson Illustration by William Greatbatch A painting by John Spencer Stanhope, a prisoner of Napoleon at Verdun
March 15, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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Martin House volunteer Peter Darrigo walks by “Fiat Lux,” an immersive art installation created by Cheyenne Concepcion inside the Eleanor and Wilson Greatbatch Pavilion, in today's #EveryDayAPhoto by Joshua Bessex:
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September 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Blessed are the pacemakers, said Wilson Greatbatch, who held the patent for the first commercially produced model.
April 16, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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Delworth and Greatbatch, 2000

They identified multidecadal variations and highlighted the sensitivity of the AMOC to various climate factors, which suggested a risk of significant changes under future warming scenarios.
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November 30, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Greatbatch elected New Zealand Cricket president as board posts NZ$ 2.2 million profit

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Former wicketkeeper-batter Mark Greatbatch has been elected as New Zealand Cricket (NZC) president, the board said in a release on Wednesday. A press release from the board …
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Former wicketkeeper-batter Mark Greatbatch has been elected as New Zealand Cricket (NZC) president, the board said in a release on Wednesday. A press release
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November 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Mark Greatbatch, Martin Crowe and Simon Doull all played for Pudsey St Lawrence in our Sunday league
December 26, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Crowe an absolute legend. Doully was apparently a legendary womaniser. My mother once served Greatbatch as a waitress and he pulled out the 'do you know who I am?' so he'll forever be a pos in my eyes.
December 26, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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Saturday 4th January 1947. Our man heads over to the Peak District to visit other friends. #1947Diary (Rough transcript included in Alt text)
Saturday 4th January 1947 Cold & gloomy. Charlie took me to Adlington for 10:16 train to Manchester via Bolton - there changed from Salford to Central & got 11:40 which reached Great Longstone at 12:56 & Ted & Evelyn met me with car. Felicity at Greatbatch & Mrs Copping away! Felicity looking more mature but still very silly & spoilt. She & Evelyn motored to Chesterfield Ted and I had a walk. Quiet evening.
January 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Sunday 5th January 1947. Our man has a lazy day, including getting warm at Percy Bambers… #1947Diary
Sunday 5th January 1947 Piercing cold all day. I laid abed til 10:30 then had hot bath. After tea to Percy Bamber’s and got warm!! Frank Thornyson to supper at Greatbatch & left at 9:15.
January 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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A real life example of what making a better story due to a failed roll looks like BUT IN REAL LIFE!
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He grabbed the wrong part. The mistake started beating like a human heart. Wilson Greatbatch reached into his component box without looking closely. His eyes were tired from hours hunched over the workbench. He needed a resistor. He grabbed one. The color bands looked right in the dim light. They weren't. It was 1956 at the University of Buffalo. Greatbatch was an electrical engineer trying to build a device that could record heart rhythms for medical research. Nothing ambitious. Just a recorder. A tool to help doctors hear what was happening inside the chest. He soldered the wrong resistor into place—a 1-megaohm instead of the 10-kiloohm he needed. He connected the wires. He flipped the switch. The circuit didn't record anything. Instead, it began to pulse. Blip. One second of silence. Blip. One second of silence. Greatbatch stared at the green line on his oscilloscope. The spike appeared, held for 1.8 milliseconds, then vanished. Exactly one second later, it returned. Perfect rhythm. Perfect timing. He wasn't looking at a failed recorder. He was looking at something that commanded rhythm rather than captured it. The mistake was beating exactly like a living heart. And in that moment, watching the green pulse on the screen, Greatbatch understood what he was holding. "I stared at the thing in disbelief," he later wrote, "and then realized this was exactly what was needed to drive a heart." Heart block—a condition where the heart's electrical system fails—was a death sentence in the 1950s. A thought formed that would consume the next decade of his life: this doesn't need to be outside the body. This could go inside. The medical establishment had a rule, and it was absolute: electronics do not belong inside the human body. The reasoning was sound. The body is wet, salty, and corrosive. It was a good rule. Until it met a man who had heard a different truth in the pulse of an accidental circuit. After many years of trial and error and working in barn, funded from his sa…
February 5, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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They evicted them from their homes to put in a base by all kinds of horrible deceptive means and still can’t go home, have no reparations CW animal death www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023...
In 1971, the commissioner of the British Indian Ocean Territory, Bruce Greatbatch, enacted an ordinance effectively banning native people of Chagos from the islands. Chagossians would later testify before the International Court of Justice in The Hague that territorial agents threatened inhabitants who refused to leave. Then the British and U.S. agents began killing their dogs, according to court records and documents. First, they tried to shoot the dogs with M16 rifles, according to a statement by the government of Mauritius filed in 2018 in the International Court of Justice. When that failed, they tried poisoning the dogs with strychnine. Finally, they used raw meat to lure the dogs into a shed, where they gassed the animals with exhaust from U.S. military vehicles
December 30, 2023 at 11:00 PM
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now on bandcamp -->
Music of Our Time, Vol. 2: Night of the Four Moons (1997)
Music of George Crumb, Jay Reise, Louise Talma, Timothy Greatbatch, and Gerald Levinson
Orchestra 2001
CRi reissue
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Music of Our Time, Vol. 2: Night of the Four Moons, by Orchestra 2001
18 track album
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September 26, 2024 at 3:39 PM