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Jacob's Ladder
is a staircase to heaven from a dream of Jacob described in the Old Testament.
Jacob's Ladder
may also refer to:
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Literature
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Music
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Songs
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- "
We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder
", a traditional African American slave spiritual
- "Jacob's Ladder", a 1965 adaptation of "We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder" by the Staple Singers from
Freedom Highway
- "Jacob's Ladder", a 1978 song by Cedar Walton from
Animation
- "Jacob's Ladder" (Rush song)
(1980)
- "Jacob's Ladder", a 1984 song by
The Monochrome Set
- "Jacob's Ladder" (Huey Lewis and the News song)
(1987)
- "Jacob's Ladder" (Mark Wills song)
(1996)
- "
Jacob's Ladder (Not in My Name)
", a 2002 song by Chumbawamba
- "Jacob's Ladder", a 2003 song by Converge from
Unloved and Weeded Out
- "Jacob's Ladder", a 2005 song by Chimp Spanner from
Imperium Vorago
- "Jacob's Ladder", a 2005 song by Patrick Wolf from
Wind in the Wires
- "Jacob's Ladder", a 2006 song by Fucked Up from
Hidden World
- "Jacob's Ladder", a 2006 song by Bruce Springsteen and the Sessions Band from
We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
- "Jacob's Ladder", a 2013 song by Terence Blanchard from
Magnetic
Places
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Australia
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New Zealand
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United Kingdom
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- Jacob's Ladder, Derbyshire
a scenic path on Kinder Scout in the Peak District of England
- Jacob's Ladder, a set of steps and a beach in
Sidmouth
, Devon, England
- Jacob's Ladder, a scenic path in
Cheddar Gorge
in Somerset, England
- Jacob's Ladder, a set of stone steps at
Devil's Bridge, Ceredigion
, Wales
- Jacob's Ladder, a set of stone steps in
Edinburgh, Scotland
- Jacob's Ladder, a flight of granite steps in
Falmouth, Cornwall
- Jacob's Ladder, a stone staircase in
Ramsgate, Kent
linking the cliff top to the harbour
- Jacob's Ladder, a concrete staircase in
Aberdeen, Scotland
providing access to Grandholm Bridge & Grandholm Mill from
Woodside,_Aberdeen
Overseas Territories
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United States
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Other uses
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- Jacob's ladder (electrical)
, a device for producing high-voltage traveling arcs
- Jacobs Ladder (exercise machine)
, a self-paced climbing machine
- Jacob's ladder (flower)
, a genus of flowering plants
- Jacob's ladder (knife)
, a three-part pocket knife
- Jacob's Ladder
(Moskos)
, a tempera painting by Elias Moskos
- Jacob's ladder (nautical)
, specialized ladders used at sea
- Jacob's ladder (toy)
, a folk toy consisting of blocks on strings that, when held at one end, appear to cascade down the strings
- Jacob's ladder surface
, a noncompact surface in mathematics
- Jacobs's ladder, the European name for a
solo string figure
- Crepuscular rays
or Jacob's Ladder, rays of sunlight that appear to radiate from a point in the sky
See also
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Topics referred to by the same term