The term Jacob's staff is used to refer to several things, also known as cross-staff, a ballastella, a fore-staff, a ballestilla, or a balestilha. In its...

folk names for the Belt of Orion. English ones include: Jacob's Rod or Jacob's Staff; Peter's Staff; the Golden Yard-arm; The L, or Ell; The Ell and Yard;...

it, the rights to Jacob's biscuit brand in Asia). The originator of the Jacob's brand name was the small biscuit bakery, W. & R. Jacob, founded in 1851...

sometimes caramel, in which case the dessert may be called a bâton de Jacob (lit. 'Jacob's staff'). A similar pastry in a round rather than oblong shape is called...

vertical Jacob's staff, or ferramentum. The umbilicus is offset with respect to the ferramentum by using a bracket pivoting on the top of the staff (frequently...

to as buggywhip, coachwhip, candlewood, slimwood, desert coral, Jacob's staff, Jacob cactus, and vine cactus) is a plant indigenous to the Mojave Desert...

staff Coat of Arms of Bever featuring pilgrim with pastoral staff Way of St. James pilgrims (1568) Cross of Saint James Pilgrim badge Jacob's staff Pilgrim's...

(often with a plumb bob hung from the handle) and also mounted on a Jacob's staff. Hasluck, Paul (1900). Cassell's Cyclopaedia Of Mechanics. Cassell And...

and use of such techniques in Spain may be attested by the medieval Jacob's staff, used specifically for measuring angles, which dates from about 1300;...

Along with new navigational techniques such as the dry compass, the Jacob's staff and the astrolabe, these allowed economic and military control of the...

distant target. It can be used as a hand-held instrument or mounted on a Jacob's staff for more precise measurement, and it is small enough to carry in a coat...

was Leah, Jacob's first wife. Her aunt Rebecca was Jacob's mother. Rachel is first mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in Genesis 29 when Jacob happens upon...

family.[citation needed] The symbol used for the world jamboree is the Jacob's staff, which was used during the exploration of new territories in the Age...

invented the Jacob's staff, an instrument to measure the angular distance between celestial objects. It is described as consisting …of a staff of 4.5 feet...

known as "Jacob's Ladder", after the Biblical story, and a pillow-shaped rock on the property prompted the farm to acquire the name "Jacob's Pillow". The...

Kate Austen, John Locke, James "Sawyer" Ford and Hugo "Hurley" Reyes. Jacob's earliest chronological appearance is in the sixth-season episode "Across...

underneath. The purpose of offsetting the reference point from the Jacob's staff (vertical pole) was twofold: it enabled sighting of lines on the ground...

The chief of staff of the Army (CSA) is a statutory position in the United States Army held by a general officer. As the highest-ranking officer assigned...

appointed the chief of staff (COS) of the Eastern Command, by General Sam Manekshaw (later Field Marshal). As the COS, Jacob's immediate superior was...

President McKinley's Inspection of Camp Wikoff (1898) and Col. John Jacob Astor, Staff and Veterans of the Spanish–American War (1899). As a result of his...

Christopher Jacobs (June 26, 1973 – February 17, 2023) was an American country music songwriter, vocalist, guitarist, pianist, as well as a staff writer for...

during Jacob's time as Director-General was the first showing of Panorama which is the world's longest-running current affairs series as of 2017. Jacob's approach...

contains various types of medicinal plants, such as orris and mullein or Jacob's staff, and juniper. One of two fig trees is on the right-hand side of Saint...

pointless, meandering shaggy dog stories. Buford and Jacob are both new kids at school. He is Jacob's best friend. He also has a mother who he mentioned...

The Staff of Moses, also known as the Rod of Moses or Staff of God, is mentioned in the Bible and Quran as a walking stick used by Moses. According to...

strophies). Jacob's homilies on the Genesis creation narrative was the first Hexaemeron to be composed in the Syriac language. Later, Jacob of Edessa would...

The United States Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC or, obsolete, USACGSC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, is a graduate school for United States...

named after the geodetic instrument ballestilla, also known as Jacob's staff or cross-staff; in association with other names in the area deriving from the...

Ben Gerson introduced an instrument called Jacob's staff (apparently invented the previous century by Jacob Ben Makir) and described the method of the...

manufactured astronomical instruments and developed a special form of Jacob's staff. In 1585, his father had estimated the ratio of a circle's circumference...