Jacob's Ladder
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Jacob's Ladder
is a "ladder to heaven", described by biblical Jacob in the Book of Genesis
Jacob's Ladder may also refer to:
Jacob's Ladder
Jacob's Ladder is a "ladder to heaven", described by biblical Jacob in the Book of GenesisJacob's Ladder may also refer to:* Ladder of Jacob, a pseudepigraphic text of the Old Testament...
is a "ladder to heaven", described by biblical Jacob in the Book of Genesis
Jacob's Ladder may also refer to:
- Ladder of JacobLadder of JacobThe Ladder of Jacob is a pseudepigraphic writing of the Old Testament. It is usually considered to be part of the Apocalyptic literature. The text has been preserved only in Slavonic, and it is clearly a translation from a now lost Greek version...
, a pseudepigraphic text of the Old Testament - High voltage traveling arc, an electrical effect, classic in cinematic portrayal of laboratories
- Crepuscular raysCrepuscular raysCrepuscular rays , in atmospheric optics, are rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from a single point in the sky. These rays, which stream through gaps in clouds or between other objects, are columns of sunlit air separated by darker cloud-shadowed regions...
shining down a hole in the clouds - Jacob's Ladder (film)Jacob's Ladder (film)Jacob's Ladder is a 1990 American psychological thriller/horror film directed by Adrian Lyne, based on a screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin.-Plot:Jacob Singer is a U.S. soldier deployed in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War...
, a 1990 psychological thriller - Jacob's Ladder (novel), a 1998 novel of Civil War Virginia by Donald McCaigDonald McCaigDonald McCaig is an American novelist, poet and essayist. He lives on a sheep farm in Western Virginia.His 1998 novel set in Civil War Virginia won the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction...
- Jacob's ladder (nautical)Jacob's ladder (nautical)The term Jacob's ladder applies to a kind of ladder found on some square rigged ships. To climb above the lower mast to the topmast and above, sailors must get around the top, a platform projecting from the mast. Although on many ships the only way round was the overhanging futtock shrouds,...
, specialized ladders used at sea, especially a rope ladder with wooden steps for ascending from the deck to the rigging - Jacob's ladder (toy)Jacob's ladder (toy)A Jacob's ladder is a folk toy consisting of blocks of wood held together by strings or ribbons. When the ladder is held at one end, blocks appear to cascade down the strings. However, this effect is a visual illusion which is the result of one block after another flipping over...
, a folk toy consisting of blocks on strings that, when held at one end, appear to cascade down the strings - Jacob's ladder (knife)Jacob's ladder (knife)The "Jacob's ladder" is a type of pocketknife consisting of two handle segments joined by a pivot, with a blade connected by a second pivot to the end of one handle segment....
, a three-part pocket knife - Jacob's Ladder (ropes course), a ladder made of eight logs of gradually increasing height
- "Jacob's Ladder", a string figureString figureA string figure is a design formed by manipulating string on, around, and using one's fingers or sometimes between the fingers of multiple people. String figures may also involve the use of the mouth, wrist, and feet. They may consist of singular images or be created and altered as a game, known as...
pattern (children's game) - "A Ladder to HeavenA Ladder to Heaven"A Ladder to Heaven" is episode 91 of the Comedy Central series South Park. It was originally broadcast on November 6, 2002.- Plot :Stan, Kyle and Cartman have won an all-you-can-grab candy prize but cannot claim it without the stub of the ticket they bought. After thinking hard, they remember that...
", a 2002 South Park episode - PolemoniumPolemoniumPolemonium, commonly called Jacob's ladder, is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the family Polemoniaceae, native to cool temperate to arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere and also in the southern Andes in South America...
, a genus of flowering plants, with common names "Jacob's Ladder" and "Abscess root" - Jacob's ladder (manifold), a noncompact surface in mathematics
- Colloquial name for the UK Beef cut of thin rib
- the Jacob's Ladder or Frenum piercingFrenum piercingA frenulum piercing is a type of body piercing located on the underside of the shaft of the penis. A series of parallel frenulum piercings is known as a frenum ladder. A frenum ladder may be extended to include lorum piercings, hafada piercings and guiche piercings.-Placement:Frenum piercings are...
, a kind of male genital piercing - Jacob's ladder surfaceJacob's ladder surfaceIn mathematics, Jacob's ladder is a surface with infinite genus and two ends. It was named after Jacob's ladder by because the surface can be constructed as the boundary of a ladder that is infinitely long in both directions.-References:...
in mathematics
Places
- A set of stairs between Military Road and Royal Parade in RamsgateRamsgateRamsgate is a seaside town in the district of Thanet in east Kent, England. It was one of the great English seaside towns of the 19th century and is a member of the ancient confederation of Cinque Ports. It has a population of around 40,000. Ramsgate's main attraction is its coastline and its main...
, Kent, England - A set of stone steps down to the lowest bridge at the waterfalls at Devil's Bridge, CeredigionDevil's Bridge, CeredigionDevil's Bridge is a village in Ceredigion, Wales.- Description :The bridge spans the Mynach, a tributary of the Rheidol. The bridge is unusual in that three separate bridges are coexistent, each one built upon the previous bridge...
, Wales - Jacob's Ladder Beach, in SidmouthSidmouthSidmouth is a small town on the English Channel coast in Devon, South West England. The town lies at the mouth of the River Sid in the East Devon district, south east of Exeter. It has a population of about 15,000, of whom 40% are over 65....
, Devon, England - A scenic path in Cheddar Gorge in Somerset, England
- A scenic path in Kinder ScoutKinder ScoutKinder Scout is a moorland plateau in the Dark Peak of the Derbyshire Peak District in England. Part of the moor, at 636 m above sea level, is the highest point in the Peak District, the highest point in Derbyshire, and the highest point in the East Midlands. It is accessible from the villages of...
in Derbyshire, England - A path on Wenlock EdgeWenlock EdgeWenlock Edge is a limestone escarpment near Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England. It is long and runs from South West to North East between Craven Arms and Much Wenlock. It is roughly 330 metres high...
at Eaton-under-Heywood, Shropshire, England - A hillside stairwaySaint Helena Railway CompanyIn 1829, the Saint Helena Railway Company built an inclined-plane cableway on Saint Helena. It was intended to lift supplies from the port and capital of Jamestown up to Ladder Hill Fort. It was rebuilt as a long, steep staircase, by the Royal Engineers in 1871 now known as Jacob’s Ladder...
between Jamestown, Saint HelenaJamestown, Saint HelenaJamestown is the capital and historic chief settlement of the island of Saint Helena, in the South Atlantic Ocean. Located on the island's north-western coast, it is the island's port, with facilities for unloading goods delivered to the island, and the centre of the island's road and...
(British territory in the South Atlantic Ocean) and Half Tree HollowHalf Tree HollowHalf Tree Hollow is the "suburb" of Jamestown, Saint Helena, a British island in the South Atlantic. The village is built at the top of Jacob's Ladder, a hillside stairway connecting it with Jamestown... - U.S. Route 20U.S. Route 20U.S. Route 20 is an east–west United States highway. As the "0" in its route number implies, US 20 is a coast-to-coast route. Spanning , it is the longest road in the United States, and the route sparsely parallels Interstate 90...
as it crosses the Berkshire Hills between the towns of Chester and Lee in western Massachusetts - A set of stairs and the associated Jacobs Ladder BridgeJacobs Ladder BridgeThe Jacobs Ladder Bridge is a covered footbridge being constructed over State Highway 1 in Auckland, New Zealand. The bridge will connect Westhaven Marina over the widened 10-lane motorway to the Jacob's Ladder stairs leading up to the Saint Marys Bay suburb. The bridge will be 102m long, 3.7m...
between Westhaven and Saint Marys Bay, in Auckland, New Zealand - A set of stairs in Saint ClairSaint Clair, New ZealandSt Clair is a leafy residential suburb of the New Zealand city of Dunedin. It is located on the Pacific Ocean coast five kilometres from the city centre on the southwesternmost part of the coastal plain which makes up the southern part of the urban area, and also climbs the slopes of Forbury Hill...
, in Dunedin, New Zealand - A set of stairs from Mounts Bay Road to Kings Park, Western AustraliaKings Park, Western AustraliaKings Park is a park located on the western edge of Perth, Western Australia central business district. The park is a mixture of grassed parkland, botanical gardens and natural bushland on Mount Eliza with two thirds of the grounds conserved as native bushland. With panoramic views of the Swan...
- A set of stairs in Falmouth, CornwallFalmouth, CornwallFalmouth is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has a total resident population of 21,635.Falmouth is the terminus of the A39, which begins some 200 miles away in Bath, Somerset....
- A trestle on the Mount Washington Cog Railway, New Hampshire
Music
- "Jacob's Ladder" (Huey Lewis and the News song)Jacob's Ladder (Huey Lewis and the News song)"Jacob's Ladder" is a 1986 song, written by Bruce Hornsby and his brother John Hornsby, that was recorded by Huey Lewis and the News and became a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987....
, a 1987 song written by Bruce Hornsby, initially recorded by Huey Lewis and the News, and subsequently also by Hornsby - "Jacob's Ladder", a song by Rush, on the album Permanent WavesPermanent WavesPermanent Waves is the seventh studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released January 1, 1980. The album was recorded at Le Studio, Morin Heights, Quebec, and was mixed at Trident Studios in London, UK. Permanent Waves became Rush's first US Top 5 album hitting #4 and was the band's fifth...
- "Jacob's Ladder" (Not in My Name)Jacob's Ladder (Not In My Name)"Jacob's Ladder " is an anti-Iraq War single from Chumbawamba. This version, different from the one on their album Readymades, is remixed and contains new anti-war lyrics.It contains two major samples:...
, a song by Chumbawamba, on the album ReadymadesReadymadesReadymades is Chumbawamba's first release on their own label MUTT. It continues the eclectic mix of techno, rock and folk of their former albums, albeit to a less ambitious scale than WYSIWYG... - "Jacob's Ladder", a song by The Monochrome SetThe Monochrome SetThe Monochrome Set are an English post-punk band originally formed in 1978 from the remnants of a college group called The B-Sides...
- "Jacob's Ladder" (Mark Wills song)Jacob's Ladder (Mark Wills song)"Jacob's Ladder" is the title of a song written by Cal Sweat, Brenda Sweat, and Tony Martin. It was recorded by American country music artist Mark Wills, who released it in May 1996 as the first single from his self-titled debut album. It reached a peak of number 6 on both the U.S...
, a 1996 song by Mark Wills, on his self-titled debut album - "Jacob's Ladder", a song by Converge, on the album Unloved and Weeded Out
- "Jacob's Ladder", a song by Patrick Wolf, on the album Wind in the WiresWind In The WiresWind in the Wires is the second studio album by English-Irish singer-songwriter Patrick Wolf.-Track listing:All songs written by Patrick Wolf.#"The Libertine" – 4:23#"Teignmouth" – 4:50#"The Shadowsea" – 0:37#"Wind in the Wires" – 4:18...
- "Jacob's Ladder", a song by Fucked Up, on the album Hidden WorldHidden WorldHidden World is the debut album by hardcore punk band Fucked Up. It was released on double vinyl by Deranged Records and on CD by Jade Tree. It is the band's first long-play record...
- Die JakobsleiterDie JakobsleiterDie Jakobsleiter is an oratorio by Arnold Schoenberg that marks his transition from a contextual or free atonality to the twelve-tone technique anticipated in the oratorio's use of hexachords...
, an opera by Arnold Schoenberg - "We Are Climbing Jacob's LadderWe Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder"We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder" is a spiritual, often used as a Sunday school song, Gospel song, or folk song, that depicts the Biblical story of Jacob's Ladder...
", a spiritual/gospel/folk song - Jacob's Ladder (band), an American rock band
- Jacob's Ladder (Dreadlock Pussy song)