In the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century, one of the new " young lions " was Christian McBride ( born 1972 ), who has performed with a range of veterans ranging from McCoy Tyner to fusion gurus Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, and who has released albums such as 2003's Vertical Vision.

Impressionism has also influenced at least some of the music of Manuel de Falla, Paul Dukas, Jean Sibelius, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, John Ireland, Cyril Scott, Zoltán Kodály, Ottorino Respighi, Jacques Ibert, Bohuslav Martinu, Olivier Messiaen, Alan Hovhaness, Ned Rorem, György Ligeti, Selim Palmgren, and Toru Takemitsu, among others, as well as jazz musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Claude Thornhill, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, Gil Evans, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Frank Kimbrough, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Shirley Horn and Esperanza Spalding, progressive rock musicians such as King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, and Yes, the entire genre of post-rock, and electronic artists like Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh, as well as Aphex Twin and Autechre.

The gravi-kora has been adopted by kora players such as Daniel Berkman, Jacques Burtin, Le Chant de la Forêt ( The Song of the Forest ), suite for kora, gravi-kora, flute and viola, and Foday Musa Suso, who featured it in recordings with jazz innovator Herbie Hancock, with his band Mandingo, and on Suso's New World Power album.

Including 2 antennas, the John Hancock Center has a height of 1, 500 feet ( 457. 2 m ), making it the fifth-tallest building in the world when measured to pinnacle height ( after Burj Khalifa, Willis Tower, the Shanghai World Financial Center, and Taipei 101 ).

It fell out of fashion for a while in the middle 1980s, principally due to the emergence of polyphonic and later digital synthesizers, but has enjoyed a huge resurgence of popularity since the 1990s — with contemporary artists highlighting the instrument, including Radiohead, Portishead, The Album Leaf, D ' Angelo, Erykah Badu, Chick Corea, Jamiroquai, Herbie Hancock, Steely Dan, The Doors and Stevie Wonder.

This controversy has been parodied twice: in The Bowmans, an episode of the television comedy programme Hancock, and in the play and film The Killing of Sister George.

Hancock has a humid continental climate, with typically long and snowy winters and much lake effect snow.

Hancock has been called " the focal point of Finns in the United States ".

John Hancock's signature on the Declaration of Independence is so unique and well known that the phrase " John Hancock " has become a synonym for " signature " in American English, and a prominent piece of American iconography.

Country rock has survived as a cult force in Texas, where acts including The Flatlanders, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, Jimmy Dale Gilmore and California-based Richard Brooker, have collaborated and recorded.

Hancock County currently has three magistrates: Chief Magistrate Betty Bauer, William S. Hicks and Michael Powell.

The Hancock County area has a strong connection with the Toledo Metropolitan Area and upon other opinions, it is sometimes considered part of the metropolitan area.

Hancock County has the ninth highest per capita income in the State of Mississippi.

Hancock County has the longest coastline of any Maine county.

McLean County, with Daviess and Hancock Counties, is part of the Owensboro Metropolitan Statistical Area ( MSA ), which has a population of some 110, 314 ( 2002 estimate ).

Beginning in August 2007, the Carthage High School ( also known as Hancock County Central High School ) building has become the home of the newly formed Illini West High School, consolidating the high school districts of Carthage, La Harpe, and Dallas City.

Located on the mainland at the head of Frenchman Bay, Hancock has commanding views of Mount Desert Island.

On the state level, Hancock is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as part of the Second Berkshire district, which covers central Berkshire County, as well as portions of Hampshire and Franklin Counties, and has been represented by Paul Mark since 2011.

On the national level, Hancock is represented in the United States House of Representatives as part of Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, and has been represented by John Olver of Amherst since June 1991.

The town has a single school, Hancock Elementary School, which serves students from kindergarten through sixth grade.

Skatutakee Mountain, the highest point in Hancock, has an elevation of above sea level.

It was first utilized as a scratch sample on the 1983 Herbie Hancock single Rockit, featuring scratching by legendary DJ and turntablist GrandMixer D. ST, and has been used in countless hip-hop tracks ever since.

He has made one-off appearances, including on Red Nose Day's The Ultimate Makeover, where Hancock, Anna Ryder Richardson, Phil Tufnell and TV gardener Joe Swift transformed a Liverpool play centre for children whose parents could not afford child-care.

Hancock has said that if he was ever invited to guest on a chat show, he would refuse.

" Hancock subsequently stated that he believes the act to be constitutionally valid and that Alberta will attempt to uphold it.

Norris noted that " Every man is listening intently at all times, responding sensitively to mutual hints and directions ", and stated " The empathy between Carter, Williams and Hancock, the way they anticipate each other, push each other, support each other, and phrase together-all this without a sign of strain-is really amazing ".

When asked in an interview concerning the soundtrack who he was most influenced by, Nakamura stated "... the music styles of Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and Jeff Beck.

Following the NCAA sanctions, BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock stated that a committee would decide whether to vacate USC's 2004 BCS Championship, but the final decision would be delayed until after the NCAA had heard USC's appeals against some of the sanctions.

Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval, in " Message of the Sphinx " stated that American archeologists and the Egyptian government had blocked investigations around the Sphinx, including attempts to locate any underground cavities.

Hancock dismisses this word, arguing that it does not conform to Romani language morphology.

John Hancock is also known for colossal landmark buildings that it does not own, but bear its name, especially:

Galton and Simpson had previously satirised pseudo-intellectuals in the Hancock's Half Hour radio episode " The Poetry Society ", whose plot bears some similarities to the film ; Hancock attempts to imitate the style of the pretentious poets and fails, and is infuriated when his idiot friend Bill does the same and wins their untrammeled approval.

This is actually a picture of the back of the Hancock County Courthouse.

Known members include the Librarian ( who was actually made a Special Constable long before the Militia was set up ); Mr Boggis of the Thieves ' Guild ; Sam Vimes ' butler Willikins ; and a clacks operative named Andy " Two Swords " Hancock who carries a disturbing amount of weaponry.

All guitar-like parts were handled by Herbie Hancock on his first two albums with the group, with one exception: The " rhythm guitar " heard interacting with Hancock's synthesizer bass early in the track Chameleon is actually Paul Jackson playing in the upper register of the bass guitar, as pointed out by Steven F. Pond in his book Head Hunters ( 2005 ).

A study by William Thorndal was published in 1988 by the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, asserting that Richard Lee I was actually the son of John Lee, a clothier, and his wife Jane Hancock ; that Richard had been born not at Coton Hall in Shropshire, but in Worcester ( some distance down the River Severn ); and that several of their immediate relatives had been apprenticed as vintners.

Based upon his experiences in the military, Walker published two books describing the history of the Second Army Corps ( 1886 ) as well as a biography of General Winfield Scott Hancock ( 1884 ).

* The Narrative of Robert Hancock Hunter ( 1860 ), describing the battle, from Texas A & M University website.

Gage, among other actions authorized by Parliament in the so-called Intolerable Acts, disbanded the local provincial government ( led by John Hancock and Samuel Adams ), which reformed itself into a Provincial Congress, and continued to meet.

The British Dougal was grumpy and loosely based on Tony Hancock, an actor and comedian.

At the same time, the BBC was also running Hancock's Half Hour starring Tony Hancock, the first of a new generation of comedies based on believable characters and situations.

The Fort Hancock Independent School District, based in Fort Hancock, covers the western part of the county, along the El Paso County line from the Mexican border to the New Mexico state line.

Roger Wilmut, whose 1978 biography of Tony Hancock as a performer, credits two British radio comedy shows, already running in 1954, with establishing an uninterrupted 30-minute sitcom format: A Life of Bliss, written by Godfrey Harrison and starring George Cole, and Life with the Lyons, a programme heavily based on the US tradition of sitcoms ; he therefore dismisses the notion that Galton and Simpson invented the genre.

The Orion correlation theory, as expounded by popular authors Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval, is based on the proposed exact correlation of the three pyramids at Giza with the three stars ζ Ori, ε Ori and δ Ori, the stars forming Orion's Belt, in the relative positions occupied by these stars in 10500 BC.

Dudley's career in film music has spanned 20 years and her film scores include: American History X ( 1998 ) an American drama directed by Tony Kaye and starring Edward Norton ; A Man Apart ( 2003 ) starring Vin Diesel ; Black Book ( 2006 ) a World War II film directed by Paul Verhoeven ; Bright Young Things ( 2003 ) British drama written and directed by Stephen Fry based on the novel Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh ; Buster ( 1988 ) a British comedy drama starring musician Phil Collins, Julie Walters, Larry Lamb and Sheila Hancock ; The Crying Game ( 1992 ) an Irish / British drama film written and directed by Neil Jordan ; The Full Monty ( 1997 ) a Peter Cattaneo directed comedy about six unemployed steel workers who decide to form a male striptease act.

Ponty Bone, Joe Ely, Lloyd Maines, Butch Hancock, Terry Allen, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Tommy Hancock, among others, helped invent the 1960s Lubbock sound, based out of Lubbock, Texas.

Other Texas based artists, such as Eleven Hundred Springs, Wayne " The Train " Hancock, Dale Watson, Stoney LaRue and Hayes Carll, continue the tradition of their Outlaw country forebears in Texas and have helped usher in the movement in honky tonks across the U. S.

The United States Marine Corps, which had been developing amphibious warfare doctrine based on the ideas of Lt. Col. Earl Hancock " Pete " Ellis and others, became interested in the machine after learning about it through an article in Life magazine and convinced Roebling to design a more seaworthy model for military use.

By contrast, several films such as the RoboCop series, Darkman, The Meteor Man, Up, Up, and Away, Unbreakable, The Incredibles, Sky High, Sharkboy and Lavagirl, Hancock and Megamind are original, while The Green Hornet is based primarily on the original radio series and its 1960s television adaptation, and Underdog is based on an animated television series.

In 2002, the London Institute of ' Pataphysics organised an exhibition based around the recreation of all the art works seen the film and presented the exhibition as if it were a retrospective of a real unknown artist called Anthony Hancock.

The screenplay by Hancock and Philip Oakes appears to be based partly on Hancock's own life and marriage.

* Fingerprints of the Gods An analysis of arguments made for a Late Pleistocene Pole Shift, based in the ideas of Rand Flem-Ath, by Graham Hancock in his 1995 book

Playwright Matthew Hancock is the author of several stage adaptations, including Window, based on the short story by Haruki Murakami, and The Body Artist, taken from the novella by Don DeLillo.

The club appointed Bryan Templeton and Derek Hancock in the summer of 2006 in a bid to revive the clubs fortunes after a few barren years when the team consisted of mostly Edinburgh based players which resulted in dwindling crowds due to no local interest.