John Hancock

As of July 2014, the market cap for John Hancock Income Securities Trust (JHS) is $172,271,335.68.

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John Hancock was a prominent merchant in Boston, known best by the people of the time as a smuggler, mainly of tea. He was admired by many, but his biggest accomplishments were in what he did as a patriot: aiding the Sons of Liberty, particularly Samuel Adams, and later becoming the governor of Massachusetts.

A good thing is that he signed the Declaration of Independence in August 2nd, 1776!!!

John Steinbeck had three sister, Mary, Beth and Esther.

He was an only child.

John Hancock's brother Ebenezer Hancock was born on Nov 15., 1741. He was Deputy Paymaster for the Army, his house is on the Freedom Trail in Boston. So although he did not grow up in the rich and famous Uncle Thomas' home he did exist.

He Made A Speech To Help Everyone In America, As Long As They Signed It.

If They Didnt He Got Pissed And Ate A Newt Then Jumped Out The Window.

The beacon has a different color depending on the weather: clear blue means a clear view, flashing blue means clouds due, steady red signals rain ahaid and a flashing red beacons warns for snow.

As of July 2014, the market cap for John Hancock Tax-Advantaged Global Shareholder Yield Fund (HTY) is $126,449,193.12.

He didnt have a middle name

John Hancock was a very influential figure in US history. The reason we say put your John Hancock on something.....he signed the Declaration of Independance....he signed his name very large and right in the center, supposedly so King George III could read it without his glasses.

In 1777 he became president of the Continental Congress , 1778 worked with the French navy in a failed military campaign to recapture Newport, RI, 1780-85 was the first governor of MA, 1787 returned as governor of MA, died Oct. 8, 1793.

Hancock can not be next to his wife or else he dies he comes from a race of people with super natural abilities and they all have to marry the opposites of them so they can die like normal people and only his wife and him are alive but if they come really close to each other they die so that is hancocks weakness and at the end of the movie he died then got his life back and jumped away so they can both have their powers back and his wife who isn't his wife anymore died to but when he jumped away she was alive again and those are all of hancocks weakness

No, William Houstoun did not sign the constitution.

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John Hancock, the maverick of Massachusetts politics, held views closer to those of Jefferson and Madison, but he did not have the "fire in the belly" for pushing a national agenda. Hancock was the wealthiest of the famous Founders and could have gone far in national politics but chose to spend his time closer to home, serving eleven times (one year terms) as governor of his state.

After the Revolution, the most popular politician in Massachusetts was John Hancock, the ex-smuggler/merchant whose signature is so large on the Declaration of Independence. He was among the richest men in the state. He was lenient to all poor debtors who owed him money personally. He let them pay him in depreciated paper money. The rich had to pay in silver. He was elected governor in 1780 and served for five years. He also was elected in 1787 and served until his death in 1793. He did not serve in 1785-87, the crucial period. He declined to run in 1785 because of gout. Gout normally affects the big toe. It can accurately be said that the great turning point in post-Revolutionary America was John Hancock's big toe.

Hancock had understood that the soldiers had been forced to sell their promissory notes for a small fraction of their face value. He was accused by opponents of refusing to collect taxes. When he left office, he was replaced by James Bowdoin, a holder of at least £3,290 in depreciated notes. He did not receive enough votes to command a majority, so the legislature had to choose. The senate insisted on him, and the house capitulated. Under his leadership, the political faction whose members had bought up these notes gained power. The government passed new taxes and insisted on collecting taxes that were in arrears. That tax burden was now higher by several times what they had been under Great Britain.

John Hancock's childhood was that he was an orphan.He was adopted by his wealthy uncle called Thomas Hancock. He apprenticed to his uncle as an clerk, that he was proved to be honest and capable that he was sent on a business misson to england.

His name is John Wright. It's discussed in the 'Behind the scenes' extras on the DVD.

The term "Put your John Hancock on it" refers to a famous signature from American history. John Hancock was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He signed his name in large, bold, ornate handwriting because, as he said, he wanted to be sure that the English would see his name (and therefore know that he was against British rule). John Hancock knew that his life could be in danger by signing the Declaration, but he was willing to accept that risk.

Therefore, when you are asked for your "John Hancock," it means that you are supposed to sign a document. We say it to recognize the bravery of the founding fathers, especially bold Mr. Hancock.

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John Hancock was a signatory to the US deceleration of independence. His signature is VERY large and stands out on the document.

Thus a "John Hancock" has in the US become a euphemism for 'signature'.

The symbol for John Hancock Pfd Income Fund II in the NYSE is: HPF.

The John Hancock Center at 875 N. Michigan Ave. in Chicago, Illinois, is a 100-story, 1,127-foot (344 m) tall skyscraper designed by structural engineer Fazlur Khan of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. When completed in 1969, it was the tallest building in the world outside New York City. One of the most famous buildings of the structural expressionist style, the skyscraper's distinctive X-bracing exterior is actually a hint that the structure's skin is indeed part of its 'tubular system'.

In Chicago, one of the most controversial buildings in this birthplace of skyscrapers is believed by Chicago paranormal experts to have a much more malicious quality. Since its completion in 1968, the John Hancock Center has been the site of multiple murders, suicides and deadly "accidents." Why? Windy City occultists are convinced that it is the very design of the place that causes its residents and workers to often take a turn for the worst.

The John Hancock Center was designed as a trapezoidal structure by its chief architect, Bruce Graham, under the counsel of Fazlur Khan, a structural engineer at the esteemed Chicago firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Khan proposed the shape as an economical way to combine larger office spaces on the lower floors with smaller apartment units on the upper levels. But it wasn't long before some Chicagoans began to question the "innocent" trapezoidal design as a poor one.

A little over three years after the Hancock's completion, a 29-year-old Chicago woman named Lorraine Kowalski fell to her death from her boyfriend's 90th-floor Hancock Center apartment. To this day, detectives are dumbfounded by the event; the building's windows are capable of withstanding more than 200 pounds of pressure per square foot and winds of more than 150 miles per hour, yet Kowalski actually broke through the glass. Four years later, a transmitter technician for a local radio station plunged to his death from the 97th floor offices of his television station. Just three months later, a 27-year old tenant "fell" from his 91st-floor apartment while studying for an exam at breakfast. In 1978, a 31-year old woman shot a man to death in his home on the Hancock's 65th floor, and in 1998, beloved comedian Chris Farley was found dead in the entrance hall of his 60th-floor apartment. Most recently, in March of 2002, a 25-foot aluminum scaffold fell from the building's 43rd floor, crushing three cars, killing three women and injuring 8 others. All of these incidents were called "baffling," "inexplicable" and seemingly unmotivated by detectives and journalists.

The Hancock center offers both apartments and offices, and all of the apartments are on the outer edge of the structure, wrapping around the outside as in any other such building. Unfortunately, in the Hancock, every one of these apartments has, due to the trapezoidal structure of the building, an outer wall that is "off-kilter" because it does not rise at 90 degrees. Many--LaVey among them--have believed that these "strange angles" have caused residents of the Hancock to behave in strange and deadly ways, and that the superhuman strength of those who have forced themselves or others through the building's seemingly impenetrable windows were calling on a ready supply of supernatural energy in the Hancock itself: energy coming through the "portal" of its trapezoidal structure.

Students of popular culture will want to note three intriguing facts about the Hancock. First, the structure's legend inspired Harold Ramis's Hollywood dream of a diabolical building: the centerpiece of his film, "Ghostbusters." Second, the late, little Heather O'Rourke, myth-shrouded star of the "Poltergeist" films, took a turn for the worst after a final publicity plug . . . held in one of the Hancock's studios. Third, a number of controversial or distressed personalities have called the Hancock home; among them, talk show host Jerry Springer, Catholic priest and novelist Andrew Greeley, and--as mentioned--comedian Farley, whose time in the building was riddled with drug and alcohol abuse, the eventual cause of his death.