Did you know that the Georgia Dome was the site for the Peach Bowls, SEC championship games, two Super Bowls, 1996 Olympic basketball, three Final Four NCAA basketball tournaments?

Georgia Dome implosion

Did you know that one of the nation's largest domed stadiums collapsed Monday into a pile of jagged concrete and a vast cloud of dust in a scheduled implosion in downtown Atlanta?

Did you know that Nearly 5,000 pounds of explosives were used to blast the Georgia Dome in Atlanta to smithereens at 7:30 a.m?

Did you know that onlookers gathered at skyscrapers' windows, at a restaurant atop the city's tallest hotel, in parking lots and on nearby streets to watch the destruction of the landmark stadium?

Did you know that the dome opened in 1992?

Did you know that when the dome was blown up it was flattened in just about 15 seconds?

Did you know that the Georgia World Congress Center Authority, which includes the 71,250-seat dome, had said it would take 12 seconds for the explosives to go off plus another 3 seconds for sections of grandstands to hit the ground?

Did you know that the explosives went off in a spiral around the stadium as it collapsed on itself, and a vast debris cloud hovered over the site before slowly drifting across downtown?

Mercedes-Benz Stadium and the Georgia Dome

Did you know that the dome has been replaced by the $1.6 billion Mercedes-Benz Stadium next door?

5-story ndustrial strength curtain between stadiums

Did you know that a 5-story tall industrial strength curtain between the two stadiums had
been erected to protect the new venue from damage?

Did you know that "There was no damage to Mercedes-Benz Stadium or the Georgia World Congress Center?"

Dud you know that the new stadium will be home Atlanta Falcons and Major League
to the NFL's
Soccer's Atlanta United?


Did you know that it also has a retractable roof that opens like a camera lens?

Did you know that the Mercedes-Benz Stadium boasts a 1,100-foot (335-meter) "halo board" video display and a giant steel sculpture of a falcon with its 70-foot (21-meter) wingspan at one of the main entrances?

Did you know that several streets and parts of Atlanta's transit system were closed to accommodate the blast and spectators?

Did you know that the idea for the Georgia Dome cost the city $214 million which began in the mid-1980s, when civic leaders recommended a domed football stadium adjoining the city's largest convention center, the Georgia World Congress Center?

Did you know that the Georgia Dome was the site of high school football state championships, Peach Bowls, SEC championship games, two Super Bowls, 1996 Olympic basketball, three Final Four NCAA basketball tournaments, concerts, pro wrestling, and other events? 

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Did you know that Terry Glenn, ex-Patriots, Cowboys receiver, was killed in a car accident he was 43?

Did you know that Glenn, was the seventh-overall pick in the 1996 NFL Draft?

Did you know that Glenn played 12 seasons in the NFL?

Did you know that Glenn, who starred at Ohio State ?

Did you know that Glenn was originally selected by the Patriots, but spent the final five seasons of his career with the Cowboys?

Did you know that Glen played 12 seasons, started 127 games and caught 593 passes for 8,823 yards and 44 touchdowns?


Did you know that Glenn eclipsed 1,000 receiving yards on four occasions -- including 1,132 yards and six touchdowns as a rookie and 1,047 yards and six touchdowns in 2006, his last full season?

Did you know that Glenn had a knee injury which limited him to just one game in 2007 and he was released by the Cowboys the following ?
 

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Did you know that Ann Wedgeworth, flirty divorcée from “Three’s Company” died she was 83??

Did you know that

Ann Wedgeworth, a Tony Award-winning Broadway actress better remembered for her extensive TV portfolio, including a brief turn as a flirty divorcée on the hit sitcom “Three’s Company” and her featured role on the Burt Reynolds series “Evening Shade,” died Nov. 16 in New York. She was 83?


Did you know that Wedgeworth won the 1978 Tony for best featured actress in a play for Neil Simon’s comedy “Chapter Two?”

Did you know that Wedgeworth played a soap opera actress hopelessly bored by her marriage?

John Ritter Ann Wedgeworth and Suzanne Summers

Did you know that Wedgeworth role on “Three’s Company” she played Lana Shields, an older woman with her eyes set on her young neighbor Jack, played by John Ritter?

Did you know that Wedgeworth said the producers wrote her out of the show without warning after nine episodes and that she never was able to get a good answer about why?

Did you know that Wedgeworth said that things were going good when she landed a key supporting role on the popular CBS series “Evening Shade” from 1990 to 1994 as a small town Arkansas doctor’s eccentric wife?

Did you know that Elizabeth Ann Wedgeworth was born in Abilene, Texas, on Jan. 21, 1934?

Did you know that Wedgeworth was 2 when her mother died, and she was raised by her father?

Did you know that in 1970, Wedgeworth married acting teacher Ernest Martin?

Did you know that Wedgeworth appeared in soap opera“Another World,” for six years?

 

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Did you know that Def Jam Recordings mogul Russell Simmons was accused of rape?

Did you know that Def Jam Recordings mogul Russell Simmons was accused of rape?

Model Keri Claussen Khalighi

Did you know that Model Keri Claussen Khalighi came forward on Sunday, telling the Los Angeles Times Simmons allegedly rapped her in 1991 when she was 17 years old and Brett Ratner allegedly watched?

Did you know that Khalighi claim that sShe met up with the powerful duo at a casting call. After going to dinner in New York, Simmons invited her to his apartment to watch a music video?

Simmons and Brett Ratner

Did you know that Khalighi claimed that Simmons started ripping off her clothes, and when she wanted Ratner to help her, she realized they were “in it together?”


Did you know that Simmons denied the allegations, saying their encounter was consensual?
 
Did you know that Simmons maintained the encounter was consensual. “Everything that occurred between Keri and me occurred with her full consent and participation?”

Did you know that Ratner’s attorney, Martin Singer, told the LA Times he didn’t remember the incident, or Khalighi asking for help?
 


 

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Did you know that Earl Hyman (know from “The Cosby Show,”) died on Friday in Englewood, N.J., he was 91?

Did you know that Earle Hyman, help to break racial stereotypes on Broadway and in Scandinavia in works by Shakespeare and Ibsen?

Did you know that Hyman was better known to millions of Americans as Bill Cosby’s father on “The Cosby Show,” died on Friday in Englewood, N.J., he was 91?

Phyllis Hyman

Did you know that Hyman was Hyman was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity?

Did you know that Hyman was the first cousin once removed of singer Phyllis Hyman?

Did you know that Hyman was Height: 6′ 4″?

Did you know that actors like Mr. Hyman love the stage, and he acted in television drama — soap operas and police dramas?

Hyman on the Cosby Show

Did you know that Hyman played Russell Huxtable, the father of Dr. Cliff Huxtable, in 40 episodes of Mr. Cosby’s hugely popular NBC situation comedy about an upper-middle-class black family, broadcast from 1984 to 1992?

Did you know that Hyman was only 11 years older than Mr. Cosby?

Did you know that Hyman was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in New York in 1997?

Did you know that Mr. Hyman appeared on and off Broadway in a score of productions over six decades, a lifetime of Beckett, O’Neill, Pinter, Albee and lesser lights as well as Shakespeare and Ibsen?

Did you know that Hyman was a major influence in developing black theater in America?

Did you know that Hyman appeared in black-cast productions on Broadway and in regional theaters and was a founder of the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Conn., which began in 1955 and often cast black actors in customarily white leading roles?

Did you know that Hyman lived and worked in England for five years and spent parts of each year in Scandinavia, mostly in Norway, for more than a half century?

Did you know that Hyman became fluent in Norwegian and Danish, spoke passable Swedish, and performed in Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm in plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen and O’Neill.

After his debut at the National Theater in Bergen in “Othello” in 1963?

Did you know that Hyman, was the first American to perform for Norwegians in their own language, was hailed by Norwegian critics?

Did you know that Hyman had performed in 50 consecutive sellouts while he was building international attention?

Did you know that he was born George Earle Hyman  in Rocky Mount, N.C., on Oct. 11, 1926?

Anna Lucasta poster

Did you know that Hyman first Broadway hit, in 1944, was “Anna Lucasta,” Philip Yordan’s play about a Polish family, turned into a story about blacks, with an American Negro Theater cast that also included Alice Childress Hilda Simms and Canada Lee?

Did you know that  “Anna Lucasta,” It ran for 957 performances and was one of Broadway’s longest-running nonmusical plays at the time?

Anna Lucasta

Did you know that after  “Anna Lucasta,”  closed in 1946, Mr. Hyman toured with the company in

America and Europe?

 

Hyman played Othello

Did you know that Hyman found little work on Broadway in the early ’50s, so he moved to London and over several years performed 13 roles in 10 Shakespeare plays, including the lead in a televised “Hamlet?” 

Did you know that Hyman played Othello in 1957 with the American Shakespeare Festival in Connecticut, and that year visited Norway for the first time?

Did you know that Hyman was impressed with Norway colorblind perspective on race?

Did you know that Hyman, never married, lived at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood?

 

Did you know that Hyman leaves no immediate survivors?

Did you know that Hyman appeared in a number of made-for-television films and movies, including “Macbeth” (1968), “Julius Caesar” (1979) and “Coriolanus” (1979)?

Did you know that Hyman also provided voices for numerous episodes of the 1980s animated TV series “ThunderCats?”

Did you know that Hyman was nominated for a Tony for his 1980 Broadway role in Edward Albee’s “The Lady From Dubuque,” and for an Emmy in 1986 for his “Cosby Show” work?

Did you know that Hyman won a CableACE Award in 1983 for best actor in a drama for “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”; an Outstanding Pioneer Award in 1980 from the Audience Development Committee, which recognized achievements by black theater artists; and the Medal of St. Olav from the King of Norway in 1988 for his work there?

 

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Did you know that Country music legend Mel Tillis died he was 85?

 Did you know that Country music legend Mel Tillis died he was 85?

Did you know that Tillis died at the Munroe Regional Medical Center in Ocala, Florida, after battling intestinal issues since 2016, the suspected cause of death was respiratory failure?

Did you know that Tillis was a prolific singer-songwriter who penned more than 1,000 songs and recorded more than 60 albums in a career that spanned six decades?

Did you know that many of Tillis songs were recorded by other country music stars such as Kenny Rogers, George Strait and Ricky Skaggs?

Did you know that Tillis commercial career peaked in 1970s when he had a string of top 10 hits, including "Good Woman Blues," "Heart Healer" and "Coca Cola Cowboy?"

Did you know that Tillis was was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2007?

Did you know that before Tillis made his way to Nashville, Tennessee, as songwriter briefly attended the University of Florida?

Did you know that Tillis serve in the Korean War when he joined the US Air Force to and was stationed in Okinawa, where he spent his time cooking and singing on Armed Forces Radio?

Did you know that he was born Lonnie Melvin Tillis in Tampa, Florida?

Country music hall of fame award

Did you know that Tillis suffered a spell of malaria as a boy that left him with a chronic stutter, according to the Country Music Hall of Fame, but that stutter became a trademark that Tillis mined for laughs, although it disappeared when he sang?

Did you know that in 1998, Tillis  became spokesman and honorary chairman of the Stuttering Foundation of America, according to his website?

Did you know that Tillis also had an acting career, with small roles in a number of films such as "The Cannonball Run" and "Smokey and the Bandit II?

Did you know that Tillis also made a TV appearance in an episode of "The Dukes of Hazzard" in the late '70s?

President Barack Obama awarding Tillis 

Did you know that in February 2012 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts -- the highest honor given to artists by the US government -- by President Barack Obama?

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Did you know that Ryan Seacrest is being investigated E! network for allegation of misconduct against from a stylist who used to work with Seacrest?

Did you know that Ryan Seacrest is being investigated E! network for allegation of misconduct against from a stylist who used to work with Seacrest?

Did you know that Variety says that whatever she’s accusing Seacrest  of reportedly happened “roughly a decade ago?”

Did you know that Seacrest has released a statement apologizing for making this woman “feel anything but respected,” but he does “dispute these reckless allegations” and he says he’ll “cooperate with any corporate inquiries that may result?

Did you know that Seacrest said I dispute these reckless allegations and I plan to cooperate with any corporate inquiries that may result. I treat all my colleagues with kindness, dignity, and understanding, as this is a principle that’s core to who I am?

Did you know that Seacrest said 25 years in the entertainment industry, the majority of my co-workers have been women, and I’ve endeavored to foster a positive work environment of mutual respect and courtesy?


 

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