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unusual facts about Jacob's ladder


Antonia Rey

Rey is better known for her cameos in various movies like Jacob's Ladder and King of the Gypsies, as well as the TV-movie pilot for Kojak entitled The Marcus-Nelson Murders.


Abraham Abramson

Jacob Abraham (1723–1800) originated in the German duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.

Akhtala Monastery

The common Christians saints are depicted below the Communion scene, including Pope Sylvester, Saint James the son of Alpheus, Saint John Chrysostom, Basil the Great, Gregory the Illuminator, Jacob of Mtsbin, Clement of Rome, Gregory the Thaumaturgist, Cyril of Alexandria and Eusebius of Caesarea.

Alpha Indexes

The Nasdaq OMX Alpha IndexesTM were developed by Jacob S. Sagi and Robert E. Whaley, both professors at the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University.

Andreas Karlstadt

In the Netherlands this is called the "Beeldenstorm" and began with the destruction of the all the images of the Monastery of Saint Lawrence in Steenvoorde after a "Hagenpreek" (field sermon) by Sebastiaan Matte, and the sacking of the Monastery of Saint Anthony after a sermon by Jacob de Buysere.

Apollo D-2

Seeking professional recognition for their design work on the GE proposal, George Arthur and Jacob Abel publicly presented their papers documenting the GE D-2 design in December 1961 at a special symposium of the American Astronautical Society in Denver, Colorado.

Archibald Jacob

Jacob was born in Jessore, Bangladesh, second surviving son of Captain Vickers Jacob (1789-1836), Indian army and later merchant and landholder in New South Wales, and his wife Anne née Watson (1796-1836).

Ashbel Green

They had three children: Robert Stockton Green (1787–1813), Jacob Green (1790–1842), and James Sproat Green (1792–1862), the latter of whom served as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey and was the father of Robert Stockton Green (1831–1895), Governor of New Jersey.

Bernard Sobel

Among his clients were Florenz Ziegfeld, Charles Dillingham, A. L. Erlanger, and Lee, Sam, and Jacob Shubert.

Bone Symphony

The group consisted of Scott Wilk on lead vocals and synthesizer, Marc Levinthal (guitar, bass synthesizer and sequencer, drum machine, 808 programming) and keyboard artist Jacob Magnusson (Iceland).

Brian Solis

He has also written the foreword for several best selling books including, Social Media ROI (Olivier Blanchard), At Your Service (Frank Eliason), Share This Too (Paul Fabretti), Social ROI (Vincenzo Cosenza), Think Before You Engage (Dave Peck), Smart Business Social Business (Michael Brito), The Hidden Power of Your Customers (Becky Carroll), The Social Customer (Adam Metz), Twitfaced (Jacob Morgan), Social Media Geek-to-Geek (Synopsys).

Bruce Joel Rubin

His writing credits include: Jacob's Ladder, Deep Impact, Brainstorm, Ghost, Deadly Friend (which he adapted from the novel Friend by Diana Henstall), My Life (which he also directed), Stuart Little 2, The Last Mimzy and The Time Traveler's Wife.

Combs College of Music

A partial list of notable faculty during the 1970s and 80s also included the duo-piano team of Toni and Rosi Grunschlag, performers and pedagogues Jacob Neupauer, Michael Guerra, Donald Reinhardt, Anthony Weigand, Romeo Cascarino, Dolores Ferraro, Frank Versaci, Joseph Primavera, Keith Chapman, Morton Berger, Howard Haines, William Fabrizio and John McIntyre.

Dan Cashman

Cashman has appeared on such television shows as Dangerous Women, Silk Stalkings, The Invisible Man and The Pretender as Sydney's brother Jacob.

Donald Saddler

In 1958, Saddler won critical acclaim for his choreography for a Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival "dance drama" adaptation of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, in which he also performed.

Every Little Part of Me

The video was produced by Flynn (Ryan Lough for Dirty Robber, Jacob Swan Hyam - produced the video for company, Flynn).

Gerkin

Jacob F. Gerkens (or Jacob T. Gerkens), Chief of Police of Los Angeles (1876-1877)

Grandfather Falls

These derive from voyageurs working for John Baptiste DuBay, who ran a trading post for the John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company near Fort Winnebago, and built a pioneering trading post and homestead near Knowlton.

Heinrich Eduard Jacob

Jacob attended Gymnasium schools in Berlin and Vienna, obtaining his Abitur school-leaver's qualification from the Ascanian high school in Berlin, under the tutelage of the noted philosopher Otto Friedrich Gruppe.

Howard Gimbel

The son of Jacob and Ruth Gimbel, he grew up along with five siblings on a grain and dairy farm east of Calgary near the small town of Beiseker.

Illya Woloshyn

He started acting at a very young age, playing the role of Jacob in Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang at Young People's Theatre in Toronto, and later Gavroche in the original Toronto production of Les Misérables at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in 1988.

Jacob Bar-Salibi

'Jacob' was his baptismal name; 'Dionysius' he assumed when consecrated to the bishopric.

Jacob Churg

Jacob Churg, born 16 July 1910 Daŭhinava, Belarus, died 27 July 2005 NYC, was a Russian-born American pathologist.

Jacob Kirkegaard

Aside from academics, Jacob Kirkegaard collaborates with various artists on installations and resonances and has performed in Asia, America and Europe.

Jacob of Juterbogk

Benedict Stolzenhagen, known in religion as Jacob, was born at Jüterbog in Brandenburg of poor peasant stock.

Jacob Worth

Jacob Worth (May 1, 1838 New York City – February 21, 1905 Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas) was an American politician from New York.

Jacob's Rescue

Jacob's Rescue is a 1994 children's book by Malka Drucker and Michael Halperin based on a true story that takes place in Warsaw, Poland during the holocaust.

Several tenement houses formerly owned by wealthy Gutgeld family are preserved in Warsaw until today (for e. g. Czerniakowska street no. 174, 176, 205, Rozbrat street no. 28/30, Dmochowskiego street no. 6)

Jake Volz

Jacob Phillip "Silent Jake" Volz (April 4, 1878 – August 11, 1962) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played between 1901 and 1908 for the Boston Americans (1901), Boston Beaneaters (1905) and Cincinnati Reds (1908).

Lar Lubovitch Dance Company

A special anniversary tour including Great Britain and (in the US) the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival

LETTERS

In addition to the Author and Germaine Pitt (or 'Lady Amherst', unrelated to any of Barth's previous novels), the correspondents are: Todd Andrews (from The Floating Opera), Jacob Horner (from The End of the Road), A.B. Cook (a descendent of Burlingame in The Sot-Weed Factor), Jerome Bray (associated with Giles Goat-Boy and Chimera) and Ambrose Mensch (from Lost in the Funhouse).

Malankara Church Peace Movement

These Peace Movements were initiated by Shinil Paul Mathews Thuruthummel, Eldhose Mathew Padickakudiyil,Johnson Jacob Koodathinalil, who are members of Youth Wings ofJacobite Syrian Christian Church and Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, through Facebook which turned out to be a blessing for Malankara Church.

Marci Shore

She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Harriman Institute, an assistant professor of history and Jewish studies at Indiana University, and the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Yale.

Mark Scatterday

His other commissions and premiers include works by composers such as Steven Stucky, David Maslanka, Jorge Liderman, Verne Reynolds, Christopher Theofanidis, John Fitz Rogers, David Liptak, Robert Morris, Jeff Tyzik, Joseph Turrin, Kyle Blaha, Jacob Bancks, James Matheson, Steven Burke, Sally Lamb, Sydney Hodkinson, and David Borden.

Miriam Mahdaviani

She also choreographed ballets for Pacific Northwest Ballet, Richmond Ballet, Jacob's Pillow, Vassar College, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, SUNY Purchase, and others.

Mordecai House

Jacob Mordecai, Moses' father, founded a girls' school in Warrenton, North Carolina.

Nachlaot

The name comes from a biblical verse (Numbers 24:5): "How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob/Thy dwellings, O Israel." Mazkeret Moshe was founded by Sir Moses Montefiore in 1882 as an Ashkenazi neighborhood.

Pace Egg play

The line up in 2010 included Billy Painter (Who is also chief Editor of The Painter's Chronicle) as The Fool, Dario Coates as St George, Sam Harris as Bold Slasher, Jack Deighton as The Doctor, Rowan Carter as The black prince of Paradine, Jacob Jones as The king Of Egypt, Joe Cotton as Hector, Desmond as Toss Pott.

Paul Weir

He defended the belt once against Ric Magramo before losing it to Jacob Matlala, after Weir was unable to continue due to a deep cut from an accidental headbutt in the fifth round.

Prussian Naval Academy

After three years he moved the school into a building that lay outside Danzig at the mouth of the Radaune River because the St. Jacob Church was inadequate.

Raphael Kaulla

Jacob Raphael Kaulla (died May 1, 1810, Hechingen) was a German court banker; born at Buchau on the Feder-See about the middle of the eighteenth century.

Saint Benjamin

Patriarch Benjamin, in the Old Testament, the last-born of Jacob's twelve sons

Snyder Estate Natural Cement Historic District

Sixteen years later, Jacob ceded a portion of his land to John B. Jervis of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, allowing it to be built across the property with the condition that the company build him a slip so he could use it to ship his produce to market, and a bridge to reach his mill.

The Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership

The Kravis Prize Selection Committee is chaired by Marie-Josée Kravis, and also includes Harry McMahon, Amartya Sen, Lord Jacob Rothschild, Ratan Tata, Surin Pitsuwan and James D. Wolfensohn.

Théophile de Bock

Although many painters were members of both organizations, the Art Circle offered the generation after 1850 an alternative to the Pulchri Studio, in which the renowned Hague School artists such as Mesdag, Israëls, and Jacob Maris were members.

Under Jakob's Ladder

Communist rule was established as a result of the 1917 Russian Revolution, and Joseph Stalin came to power in the late 1920s.

Waxweb

In the movie David Blair plays Jacob Maker, Meg Savlov plays Melissa Maker, Florence Ormezzano plays Allelle Zillah, William Burroughs plays James "Hive" Maker and Dr. Clyde Tombaugh is himself.

Yamaha AN1x

The AN1x has been used by several artists, including Jean Michel Jarre, Psyclon Nine, History Of Guns, Velvet Acid Christ, Nine Inch Nails, Nitin Sawhney, Phish, Igor Khoroshev of YES, Spacehotel, Daniel Ruppar of Down In The Lab, and Jacob Thiele of The Faint.

Yellowstone Quake

In 2013, former Quake player Jacob Doty signed a three year deal with the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League.

Zelandia Illustrata

The collection was founded by the Amsterdam lawyer Jacob Verheye van Citters (1753–1823) in the 18th century.


see also

Alan Morinis

His later studies in Judaism, under the tutelage of Rabbi Yechiel Perr, led him to discover the Musar movement, a process which he described in his book Climbing Jacob's Ladder.

Helicopter Rope Suspension Technique

Helicopter Rope Suspension Technique (HRST) is a military term for techniques and methods of rappelling, fast roping, Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction (SPIE) and Jacob’s Ladder operations.

Mady Mesplé

She was also the first to sing the French version of Hans Werner Henze's Elegy for Young Lovers in 1965, and Pierre Boulez chose Mesplé for his performances of Arnold Schoenberg's Jacob's Ladder.

Scenes from the Southside

Two other notable tracks on the record were "The Show Goes On", which was featured in Ron Howard's 1991 film Backdraft, and "Jacob's Ladder", which was written by Bruce and John Hornsby, but is most well known as being a number-one hit for Huey Lewis and the News in March 1987.