They graduated together from Atlanta's Turner High School, where Valedictorian Holmes was first in the class and Charlayne third.

But unlike the Broncos, Atlanta's success in the 1998 season was very surprising to many because they had a 7-9 record in the previous season and a 3-13 record the year before that.

Turner was instrumental in the revival of Atlanta's downtown.

The play Bald Grace by Marki Shalloe debuted at Chicago's Stockyards Theatre in 2005 and was featured at Atlanta's Theatre Gael ( America's oldest Irish-American theatre ) in 2006.

Portman's work was featured in a major exhibition at Atlanta's High Museum of Art in 2009.

Atlanta's bid to host the Summer Games that began in 1987 was considered a long-shot, since the U. S. had hosted the Summer Olympics just 12 years earlier in Los Angeles.

He was educated in Atlanta's public schools, graduated from Boys High School in 1925, and spent two years working for an Atlanta lawyer before working his way through Davidson College.

Many also attribute Atlanta's name to Martha's middle name of Atalanta ; however, there are conflicting accounts which suggest the name Atlanta was derived as the feminine form of Atlantic ( Atlanta being one end of the Western & Atlantic Railroad ) by John Edgar Thomson, Chief Engineer of the Georgia Railroad.

Its close proximity to Atlanta's Midtown and Buckhead districts, as well as Emory University and Decatur, makes it a desirable " in-town " location for what was originally developed as a suburban community.

French Wine Coca was marketed mostly to upper class intellectuals, afflicted with diseases believed to have been brought on by urbanization and Atlanta's increasingly competitive business environment.

Later in the Spring of 1963 Burke toured on Henry Wynn's Supersonic Attractions Tour with Sam Cooke, Jerry Butler, Dee Clark, The Crystals, The Drifters, Little Esther Phillips, Dionne Warwick, Johnny Thunder, " Little Julius " High ( later known as " Lotsa Poppa "), with The Upsetters Band and Theophilous Odell George ( known as " Gorgeous George "), who was emcee, to mostly mixed white and black audiences, including a concert at Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, two concerts on April 28, 1963 at the Montreal Forum in Shawinigan, Quebec,

Their May 9 show at Atlanta's Fox Theatre was simulcast in LIVE HD, via satellite, in select movie theatres nationwide.

James Dickey was born to lawyer Eugene Dickey and Maibelle Swift in Atlanta, Georgia where he attended North Fulton High School in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood.

( Atlanta's first scheduled international flight was the Delta / Pan Am interchange DC-8 to Europe starting in 1964 ; the first scheduled nonstop to a foreign country was Eastern's flight to Mexico City around 1972.

The charter flight was carrying home Atlanta's civic and cultural leaders of the day.

The SEC championship was moved to Atlanta's Georgia Dome two years later, leaving Legion Field without any Division I-A postseason college football until 2006, when the NCAA agreed to hold a new post-season game the Papajohns. com Bowl ( now the BBVA Compass Bowl ), proposed by ESPN.

Throughout the 1990s 191 Peachtree was considered Atlanta's premier business address.

Designed by developer / architect John Portman, the building gained landmark status within the city as Atlanta's tallest building from its completion, in 1976, to 1987 when it was overtaken by One Atlantic Center.

TVS, which was also responsible for the Concourse at Landmark Center highrise development on Atlanta's northern edge, has its headquarters in the building.

First, it was Atlanta's first mixed-use skyscraper, incorporating hotel, office and condominiums into one building.

Hometown airline Delta continued to grow, and by 1998-9, Atlanta's airport was the busiest in the world.

It was at this time that Atlanta officials again moved to make the city Georgia's new state capital, donating the location of Atlanta's first city hall.

Pro Bowl quarterback Chris Chandler led Atlanta's offense extremely well, throwing for 3, 154 yards, and 25 touchdowns, with just 12 interceptions, while also rushing for 121 yards and 2 touchdowns.

On March 14, 2008, an F-2 tornado struck Atlanta's downtown core and led to the evacuation of students and employees from various areas of the Georgia State campus.

Aided by Dwight's 42-yard kickoff return to the 49-yard line, the Falcons responded by driving to Denver's 11-yard line and scored with Andersen's 28-yard field goal to cut Atlanta's deficit to 17 – 6 going into halftime.

During the 2000s, Lovejoy has been proposed by the Georgia Department of Transportation to be the endpoint of metro Atlanta's first commuter rail line.

Hapeville has also been discovered by metro Atlanta's arts community, and the beginnings of an artist colony have taken shape with the formation of the Hapeville Arts Alliance.

In addition the Lumberjacks also incorporated the crunk style that by then had pervaded Atlanta's music scene.

* Atlanta's Passion Play has been produced by the First Baptist Church of Atlanta since 1977.

They had been forewarned by the arrival of Atlanta's news media of an impending attempted invasion of our restaurant by the racial demonstrators and once the demonstrators and agitators arrived, the customers and employees pulled the drumsticks from the kegs and went outside to defend against the threatened invasion.

On June 16, 2003, Corporate Board Member magazine named King & Spalding Atlanta's best corporate law firm for the second consecutive year, and in 2008, ranked the company among the top 20 law firms in the United States preferred by corporate general counsel to represent their companies on national matters.

Its basic design elements, a postmodern square tower with an elaborate base and crown, represented a departure for Portman from his earlier International-style work, and are said to have been inspired by Philip Johnson's wildly successful design for midtown Atlanta's One Atlantic Center.

Ground broke in 1989 with great fanfare, but by completion in 1992, the bottom had fallen out of Atlanta's real estate market and the building sat largely empty, nearly forcing Portman into bankruptcy and causing him to lose control of most of his real estate holdings.

* March 10, 2003-Traded by the Phoenix Coyotes to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Guillaume Lefebvre, Atlanta's 2003 3rd round draft choice, and Phoenix's 2004 2nd round draft choice.

Jones was baptized on his death bed by Monsignor John D. Stapleton, pastor of the Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta, the church attended by the Jones family and was buried in Atlanta's historic Oakland Cemetery.

Locally produced programming includes Tech Talk, a talk show hosted by and focusing on concerns of Georgia Tech students ; the Ramblin ' Wreck Report, a Georgia Tech sports talk show hosted by students ; Destroy All Music, clatter-improv with pink noise freakouts ; The Mobius, an experimental electronic show featuring music and in-studio performances of new and established artists that run the electronic gamut ; The Electric Boogaloo, a funksperience ; Live @ WREK, a live music show ; and Continental Drift, Atlanta's longest running international music radio program.

On May 29, at 5 AM, after playing " Another One Bites the Dust " by Queen, " Last Dance " by Donna Summer, and " A Day in the Life " by The Beatles, " Atlanta's Greatest Hits " gave way to clips that contained the word " News ", as well as several other sound bites.

The team went on to win two subsequent playoff games and appeared in its first-ever Super Bowl, in Atlanta's Georgia Dome.

The Rams struck back with Bulger's 28-yard touchdown pass to Torry Holt, and then recovered a fumble from Vick on Atlanta's next drive.

He lost a Hair vs Argentina ( Gigante wins he shaves Gang's head, Gang wins Gigante goes back to Argentina forever ) match on 1991's final Great American Bash event in Atlanta's Omni on August 25 ( untelevised event that also included Lex Luger defeating Ron Simmons to defend his WCW World title and Sting winning the US title in a one-night tournament ).

Replay is the account of 43-year-old radio journalist Jeff Winston, who dies of a heart attack in 1988 and awakens back in 1963 in his 18-year-old body as a student at Atlanta's Emory University.