On the heels of the 2008 recession, General Motors downsized its portfolio. The Saturn, Pontiac, and Hummer marques were all discontinued in 2010, while GM sold off Saab to Spyker Cars that same year.
(Edited because my original post was highly similar to Bullitt’s. 
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Besides Saturn, Pontiac, and Saab, some of the cars brands formerly owned by General Motors also included Oakland, Hummer, Daewoo, McLaughlin, Oldsmobile, Vauxhall, and Opel.
Pontiac’s War was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes, primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country who were dissatisfied with British postwar policies in the Great Lakes region after the British victory in the French and Indian War (1754–1763). Warriors from numerous tribes joined the uprising in an effort to drive British soldiers and settlers out of the region. The war is named after the Odawa leader Pontiac, the most prominent of many native leaders in the conflict.
The Pontiac Building is a historic high-rise building located at 542 S. Dearborn St. in the Printer’s Row neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1891, the building is the oldest surviving work in downtown Chicago designed by the architecture firm Holabird & Roche. Due to the building’s architectural significance, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Johnny Cash was the Grand Marshall of the U.S. Bicentennial parade on July 4, 1976. Cash’s father Ray Cash was a member of one of Tennessee’s first farmer’s unions, the Southern Tennessee’s Farmer’s Union.
(I’ve always wondered if they ever used the acronym STFU?)
OK, that was a good laugh this morning!
In play:
Johnny Cash, who began singing professionally in 1954, continued to perform until shortly before his death in 2003. According to Wikipedia, Cash released 96 albums throughout his career.
Johnny Cash suffered from a number of health issues over his life, as well as various addictions. However, when he nearly died in 1981, it was not due to any of these, but an ostrich attack.
Cash had a number of exotic animals on his farm outside of Nashville, including a pair of ostriches. One winter day, the male ostrich attacked Cash as he was walking on the farm, gashing open Cash’s stomach, and causing five broken ribs.
Johnny Cash’s song “Hurt” was used for the first trailer for the 2017 X-Men drama Logan, starring Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart.
Um, no. Wiki: While hospitalized at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Cash died of complications from diabetes around 2:00 am CT on September 12, 2003, aged 71—less than four months after his wife. His health may have worsened due to a broken heart over June’s death.[111][112] He was buried next to his wife in Hendersonville Memory Gardens near his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee.
Um, I think you missed the adverb ‘nearly’ in the post by kenobi 65.
In play: According to Healthline, 29.1 million people in the United States have diabetes, but 8.1 million may be undiagnosed and unaware of their condition. More than one in every 10 adults who are 20 years or older has diabetes. For seniors (65 years and older), that figure rises to more than one in four.
(Indeed. 
In 2002, the year before he died, Johnny did some voiceover work for some television ads that my team was creating. Due to his ill health, he didn’t travel anymore, so our creatives flew down to Nashville, then went out to the farm, where he had a small recording studio. While giving them a tour of the farm, Johnny’s manager told them the story of the ostrich attack, and ended the story with: “And that ostrich wound up leaving the property in the form of soup.” :eek: )
In play: Actor Wilford Brimley has had a long career as a character actor, though he may be most recognized as a spokesperson in television ads. He was the spokesperson in a longrunning Quaker Oatmeal ad campaign in the 1980s and 1990s; more recently, Brimley has been the spokesperson in television ads for Liberty Medical, a supplier of mail-order medical supplies for diabetics.
Brimley’s pronunciation of the word “diabetes” sounds more like “diabeetus,” and has spawned a number of internet memes in recent years.
Wilford Brimley was only 50 when “Cocoon” was filmed, much younger than his character and the other actors playing seniors. No makeup was used; he just looked much older than he was.
Um . . . :smack:
Wilford Brimley played a top U.S. Justice Department official in the 1981 Paul Newman/Sally Field legal drama Absence of Malice. (He only appears for about ten minutes near the end of the movie, but IMHO he stole the show).
Brimley Halt was a railway station open in 1928 by the Great Western Railway (GWR) to serve the village of Brimley that lies between Bovey Tracey and Ilsington in South Devon, England. The track had been lifted and the site of the station was destroyed by the construction of a new A382 road along the course of the trackbed.
Not in play: Elendil’s Heir, concur with your review. For my money, the scene from seeing the shoes walking down the hall to Brimley’s “You’ve got 30 days.” is one of my all-time favorite scenes–acting, dialogue, blocking, everything works. IMHO of course.
The Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site on the English Channel coast of southern England, stretches for almost 100 miles from Exmouth in East Devon to Studland Bay in Dorset. The area around Lulworth Cove contains a fossil forest, and 71 different rock strata have been identified at Lyme Regis, each with its own species of ammonite.
The fossil collector and paleontologist Mary Anning lived in the area in the early 1800s; her discoveries of marine reptiles and other fossils contributed greatly to the development of the field.
The English Channel separates southern England from northern France. It is the busiest shipping area in the world. It is about 350 miles long and varies in width from 150 miles at its widest to 20.7 miles at its narrowest, which is the Strait of Dover.
The first verified Channel swim was accomplished by Captain Matthew Webb on August 24-25, 1875. Webb made the first observed and unassisted swim across the Strait of Dover, swimming from England to France in 21 hours, 45 minutes.
Only five men had swum the Channel before New Yorker Gertrude Ederle did it in 1926, also setting a time record for either gender. Earlier, she won a gold medal in the 1924 Paris Olympics in the 4x100 freestyle relay. It was an illustrious Olympic team – swimmer Johnny Weissmuller, oarsman Benjamin Spock, tennis player Helen Wills, and long-jumper DeHart Hubbard, who, according to America’s Girl, was “the first black man to win an individual gold.” The U.S. Olympic team had its own ticker-tape parade in 1924, and Ederle had her own after returning from England.
Wilford Brimley played the U.S. Postmaster General in a Seinfeld episode, where he firmly tells Kramer to stop trying to expose what a scam the postal service is. A frightened Kramer hurries out of the room, as Neuman, tied up and with a bucket on his head, is being led in for his own “chat” with the Postmaster General for having exposed the weaknesses of the postal system. Neuman’s last words to Kramer are “Tell the world my story!”
From 1829 to 1971, the postmaster general was a member of the President’s Cabinet.
