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A Jacob's Ladder unfolded Watch toy in action (Ogg Theora format, 1.7 MB) A Jacob's ladder (also magic tablets, Chinese blocks, and klick-klack toy [1]) 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.
Jacob's Ladder (Biblical Hebrew: סֻלָּם יַעֲקֹב , romanized: Sūllām Yaʿăqōḇ) is a ladder or staircase leading to Heaven that was featured in a dream the Biblical Patriarch Jacob had during his flight from his brother Esau in the Book of Genesis (chapter 28).
A "Jacob's Ladder" is also a science toy that draws an AC arc across a pair of nearly parallel vertical rabbit-ear electrodes. As the arc heats and ionizes the air, the column of air between the electrodes is seen to rise, drawing the arc upward with it.
In 1987, Rubik's Magic: Master Edition was published by Matchbox; it consisted of 12 silver tiles arranged in a 2 × 6 rectangle, showing 5 interlinked rings that had to be unlinked by transforming the puzzle into a shape reminiscent of a W. Around the same time, Matchbox also produced Rubik's Magic Create the Cube, [2] a "Level Two" version of ...
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A 34-year-old mother in England learned that she had breast cancer shortly before giving birth to her first child. Laura Hudson from Manchester received a diagnosis of stage 2, grade 3 breast ...
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