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 ).

A similar situation occurred in the U. S. when NASA acquired land to construct the John C. Stennis Space Center ( SSC ), a rocket testing facility, in Hancock County, Mississippi ( on the Mississippi side of the Mississippi River, which is the Mississippi-Louisiana state line ) required NASA to acquire a large ( approximately ) buffer zone because of the loud noise and potential dangers associated with testing such rockets.

They have built several of the tallest buildings in the world, including the John Hancock Center ( 1969, second tallest in the world when built ), Sears Tower ( 1973, tallest in the world for over twenty years ), and Burj Khalifa ( 2010, current world's tallest building ).

The idea of a coin toss came from Phipps, the owner of Bold Ruler, and " Bull " Hancock of Claiborne Farms as a way to get the very best mares for Bold Ruler, and when the toss went their way, to add well-bred fillies to their own broodmare band.

Development in the neighborhood began in the 1890s and surged in the early 1900s, when a rush of prosperity increased the numberof relatively wealthy people in Hancock.

It was named for the Ohio River, which originally formed its northern boundary, but lost its northern portions in 1829, when Daviess County and Hancock County were formed.

The first recorded European settlement in what is now Bridgeton was made by 1686 when Richard Hancock established a sawmill here.

Pickett had met Hancock only briefly, when Hancock was passing through Texas.

Hancock ’ s comedy idol is Peter Cook and he got the chance to meet him when Cook appeared on Room 101.

Hancock enjoyed hosting They Think It's All Over-especially when guests got in hot water: " Chris Eubank was slagging off Kiwi rugby star Jonah Lomu, who's 6 ft 5 in and about 18 1 / 2 stone.

Le Mesurier's friendship with Tony Hancock provided a further source of work when Hancock asked him to be one of the serial supporting actors in Hancock's Half Hour, once it moved from radio to television.

His noted integrity was a counterpoint to the corruption of the era, for as President Rutherford B. Hayes said, "... f, when we make up our estimate of a public man, conspicuous both as a soldier and in civil life, we are to think first and chiefly of his manhood, his integrity, his purity, his singleness of purpose, and his unselfish devotion to duty, we can truthfully say of Hancock that he was through and through pure gold.

Benjamin Hancock was a schoolteacher when his sons were born.

Hancock was at first educated at Norristown Academy, but removed to the public schools when the first one opened in Norristown in the late 1830s.

On August 2, 1776, when delegates signed the formal copy of the Declaration of Independence, his position made him the second to sign, just after John Hancock, the president of the Congress.

The first time this came into use was five years after the constitution's adoption in 1785, when Governor John Hancock resigned the post, leaving Lieutenant Governor Thomas Cushing as acting Governor.

The Bald Knob National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1993 when the U. S. government purchased a large rice farm from the John Hancock Insurance Company.

This was one of several incidents when a Boston merchant resisted a search with a seemingly exact knowledge of the law ; John Hancock would act in a similar manner when customs officials attempted to search his ship Lydia in 1768.

The matter reached a peak of sorts in 1783 when the college's issues with Hancock were read and discussed in an open meeting at which Hancock was the presiding officer.

Hancock was also the first presenter when the series transferred to television two years later.

Still in his mid-20s, Hancock was a graduate student at Harvard when approached for the job.

Williams ' last revue was One over the Eight, with Sheila Hancock.

John Hancock Observatory allows a 360 ° view of the city, up to four states and over 80 miles.

This forced the original owner to go bankrupt, which resulted in the owner's insurance company, John Hancock, taking over on the project.

The notion that an ancient Egyptian priestly elite tracked the precessional cycle over many thousands of years plays a central role in the theories expounded by Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock in their 1996 book Keeper of Genesis.

Hancock Park in Lampasas was temporarily turned over to the troops as a recreational area.

The Portage Lift Bridge crosses Portage Lake, connecting Hancock and Houghton, Michigan, by crossing over Portage Lake, which is part of the river and canal system that crosses the entire peninsula.

A little over a year after his arrival back in Virginia, Clark married Julia Hancock of Fincastle, a cousin, on January 5, 1808.

When Robert E. Lee retreated from Gettysburg, over 5000 wounded Confederate soldiers were left behind which were then treated by Dix's nurses, like Cornelia Hancock who wrote about what she saw —" There are no words in the English language to express the suffering I witnessed today ...."

The fiftieth annual International Frisbee Tournament ( IFT ), held in Hancock, Michigan, June 30 – July 1, 2007, was a large guts disc tournament, drawing players from all over the United States and Canada, and for the first time, two strong teams from Japan – including “ Katon ”, the WFDF World Champions.

Miller soon became a first call session musician, gracing well over 500 albums, a short list of which includes Michael Jackson, Herbie Hancock, Mariah Carey, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Frank Sinatra, Dr. John, Aretha Franklin, Elton John, Grover Washington Jr., Donald Fagen, Bill Withers, Chaka Khan, LL Cool J, Me ' shell Ndegé Ocello and Flavio Sala.

Fairfax Avenue forms the western boundary of Hancock Park as well as Park La Brea, an 160 acre ( 0. 6-km² ), 4, 222-unit apartment complex with over 10, 000 residents.

* Mike Hancock, MP for Portsmouth South and Councillor for Fratton ward, has lived here for over 30 years.

Both Bowdoin and Hancock attended the Brattle Street Church, where they competed with each other over the size and quality of the improvements to the building ( and even the location of a new one ) that they funded.

In 1785, apparently sensitive to rising unrest in western Massachusetts over the poor economy, Hancock offered to resign, expecting to be asked to stay in office.

Another sect breaking with the Temple Lot church was the Church of Christ ( Hancock ), founded in 1946 by Pauline Hancock, who had resigned from the Temple Lot church due to her disagreements with that organization over their view of the Godhead.

In December 2010, it was announced by the Hampshire Police that Hancock would not face charges over claims of indecent assault which had led to Hancock's arrest on 12 October 2010 and release on bail until January 2011.

However, he left Michigan State for Allan Hancock Community College in Santa Maria, California, where he took over placekicking duties from exiting freshman Jack Garvin ( who left for the University of California, Los Angeles ( UCLA ) in Division I ).

Carlisle became a leader of the conservative Bourbon Democrats and was mentioned as a presidential candidate but the Democrats passed him over at their conventions for Winfield S. Hancock in 1880 and Grover Cleveland in 1884.

" Hoping to salvage the situation, Amelio hired Ellen Hancock away from National Semiconductor to take over engineering and get Copland development back on track.

After World War II, the airport couldn't keep up with demand, so the city took over the former Mattydale Bomber Base and renamed it Syracuse Hancock International Airport.

The hind extremities of the headshield have evolved into tentacles, directing the water over Hancock ’ s organ.

Hancock is still stewing over the fact that he is no longer the sports star and that his girlfriend is not only reluctant to marry him but may end up being more successful than he.