Seven Sisters
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Astronomy and mythology
- Pleiades (Greek mythology)Pleiades (Greek mythology)The Pleiades , companions of Artemis, were the seven daughters of the titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione born on Mount Cyllene. They are the sisters of Calypso, Hyas, the Hyades, and the Hesperides...
, seven sisters who are companions of Artemis in Greek mythology - Pleiades (star cluster)Pleiades (star cluster)In astronomy, the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters , is an open star cluster containing middle-aged hot B-type stars located in the constellation of Taurus. It is among the nearest star clusters to Earth and is the cluster most obvious to the naked eye in the night sky...
, a star cluster named for the mythological characters - Pleiades in folklore and literaturePleiades in folklore and literatureThe high visibility of the star cluster Pleiades in the night sky has guaranteed it a special place in many cultures, both ancient and modern.The astrological Pleiades was originally described in Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa .The heliacal rising of Pleiades often...
, traditional and mythological interpretations of the star cluster - The HesperidesHesperidesIn Greek mythology, the Hesperides are nymphs who tend a blissful garden in a far western corner of the world, located near the Atlas mountains in North Africa at the edge of the encircling Oceanus, the world-ocean....
of Greek mythology
Education
- Seven Sisters (colleges)Seven Sisters (colleges)The Seven Sisters are seven liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges. They are Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Radcliffe College, Smith College, Vassar College, and Wellesley College. All were founded between 1837 and...
, a group of American women's colleges - The Seven Sisters of American Protestantism, an informal grouping of seven traditional mainline and liberal Protestant denominations
Geographical locations
- Seven Sisters, Baja California, Seven epic point breaks in Baja California, Mexico
- Seven Sisters, British Columbia, a mountain range in British Columbia, Canada
- Seven Sisters, DonegalSeven Sisters, DonegalThe Seven Sisters is a mountain chain in northwest County Donegal, Ireland. It is part of a larger mountain range called the Derryveagh Mountains. The Seven Sisters, from southwest to northeast, are as follows:*Errigal...
, a mountain chain in County Donegal, Ireland - Seven Sisters, LondonSeven Sisters, LondonSeven Sisters is an area of North London in the United Kingdom and part of the London Borough of Haringey. It is located at the east end of Seven Sisters Road, which runs from Tottenham High Road to join the A1 in Holloway.-Etymology:...
, an area and road in England with a railway and underground station of that name- Seven Sisters stationSeven Sisters stationSeven Sisters station is a National Rail and London Underground Victoria Line station in the Seven Sisters area of the London Borough of Haringey, north London.The station is in Travelcard Zone 3....
, a rail station and underground (tube) station at Tottenham, London - Seven Sisters RoadSeven Sisters RoadSeven Sisters Road is a road in north London, England which runs within the boroughs of Islington, Hackney and Haringey. It is an extension of Camden Road, running from Holloway Road at the Nags Head crossroads then on to another crossroads with Blackstock Road and Stroud Green Road...
, a road in North London
- Seven Sisters station
- Seven Sisters, ManitobaSeven Sisters, ManitobaSeven Sisters Falls, is a community in Manitoba. It is located in the Rural Municipality of Whitemouth....
, a community in Manitoba, Canada - Seven Sisters, Mars, a group of seven high altitude caves on the planet Mars near Arsia MonsArsia MonsArsia Mons is the southernmost of three volcanos on the Tharsis bulge near the equator of the planet Mars. To its north is Pavonis Mons, and north of that is Ascraeus Mons. The tallest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons, is to its northwest...
- Seven Sisters (Massachusetts)Seven Sisters (Massachusetts)The Seven Sisters, part of the Holyoke Range and located within the Pioneer Valley region of Massachusetts, are a series of basalt ridgeline knobs between Mount Holyoke and Mount Hitchcock . The knobs offer scenic clifftop views interspersed with oak savanna woodlands...
, a group of ridgeline knobs located in the Holyoke Range of Western Massachusetts - Seven Sisters (Moscow)Seven Sisters (Moscow)The "Seven Sisters" is the English name given to a group of Moscow skyscrapers designed in the Stalinist style. Muscovites call them Vysotki or Stalinskie Vysotki , " high-rises"...
, a group of seven Stalinist skyscrapers in Moscow, Russia - De syv søstreDe syv søstreDe syv søstre is a mountain range on the island of Alsten in Norway.The seven peaks are :* Botnkrona * Grytfoten * Skjæringen * Tvillingene...
(Seven Sisters), a mountain formation in Helgeland, Norway - Seven Sisters (Queensland), a group of small mountains on the Atherton Tableland in Australia
- Seven Sisters, SussexSeven Sisters, SussexThe Seven Sisters are a series of chalk cliffs by the English Channel. They form part of the South Downs in East Sussex, between the towns of Seaford and Eastbourne in southern England. They are within the Seven Sisters Country Park...
, a group of chalk cliffs in England - Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot, a village in South Wales
- Seven Sister StatesSeven Sister StatesThe Seven Sister States also called "Paradise Unexplored" is a name given to the contiguous states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland & Tripura in northeastern India. These states cover an area of about 250,000 sq. km. or about 7 percent of India's total area. They...
, a region in northeastern India comprising the contiguous states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Tripura.
Film
- The Seven Sisters (1915 film)The Seven Sisters (1915 film)The Seven Sisters was a silent romantic comedy produced by Adolph Zukor and Daniel Frohman, and was directed by Sidney Olcott. The film is based on the ensemble play Seven Sisters by Edith Ellis Furness and Ferenc Herczeg....
, a 1915 silent film starring Marguerite Clark and released by Paramount Pictures
Music
- Seven Sisters (album), an album by the Swedish composer and singer Meja
- "Seven Sisters", a song by Tori Amos from Her 2011 album, "Night of HuntersNight of HuntersNight of Hunters is the 12th solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Tori Amos, released on September 20, 2011, in the United States, through Deutsche Grammophon Records...
" - "Seven Sisters", a song by USA band mewithoutYou from their album, Catch for Us the FoxesCatch for Us the FoxesCatch for Us the Foxes is indie rock group mewithoutYou's second full-length album, released on October 15, 2004 by Tooth & Nail Records.Catch for Us the Foxes reached a peak position of number 20 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers on October 23, 2004...
- "The Seven Sisters", a song by USA band Rainer Maria from their album, A Better Version of MeA Better Version of MeA Better Version of Me is the third studio CD by the indie rock band Rainer Maria.- Reception :"Matured vocal power and solid song structure have replaced the cacophonous ways of their youth." - PopMatters...
Art
- The Seven Sisters, An image of the seven progressions of the miners safety lamp by Adrian Moule 2010
Organizations
- Seven sisters (studios)Seven sisters (studios)The seven sisters of the Hollywood film industry were the major movie studios of the period between the early 1980s, when the Walt Disney Company's Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group emerged as a major, and 2005, when MGM was acquired by a consortium including Sony Pictures Entertainment...
, the seven original major movie studios - Seven Sisters (oil companies)Seven Sisters (oil companies)The "Seven Sisters" was a term coined in the 1950s by businessman Enrico Mattei, then-head of the Italian state oil company Eni, to describe the seven oil companies which formed the "Consortium for Iran" and dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s...
, a group of oil companies - Seven Sisters (law firms)Seven Sisters (law firms)The Seven Sisters refers to a collection of seven leading Canadian law firms with offices in Toronto. The term can be traced back to at least 2001, when it may have been coined by Sandra Rubin to describe the top seven Canadian law firms by mergers and acquisitions deal volume...
, seven Canadian law firms - Seven Sisters (magazines)Seven Sisters (magazines)The Seven Sisters are a group of magazines which have traditionally been aimed at married women who are homemakers with husbands and children, rather than single and working women. The name is derived from the Greek myth of the "seven sisters", also known as the Pleiades...
, a group of American women's magazines
Games
- Seven Sisters (Forgotten Realms)Seven Sisters (Forgotten Realms)The Seven Sisters—fictional characters of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting of the Dungeons & Dragons Role Playing Game. The sisters are epic level characters of differing abilities, most of which involve some form of spellcasting and use of magic...
, fictional characters from the Forgotten Realms role-playing game
Sport
- The Seven Sisters (Sette Sorelle), the most prominent ItalianItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
football clubs in Serie ASerie ASerie A , now called Serie A TIM due to sponsorship by Telecom Italia, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and has been operating for over eighty years since 1929. It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new...
during the 1990s and early 2000s: Juventus F.C.Juventus F.C.Juventus Football Club S.p.A. , commonly referred to as Juventus and colloquially as Juve , are a professional Italian association football club based in Turin, Piedmont...
, A.C. MilanA.C. MilanAssociazione Calcio Milan, commonly referred to as A.C. Milan or simply Milan , is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Lombardy, that plays in the Serie A. Milan was founded in 1899 by English lace-maker Herbert Kilpin and businessman Alfred Edwards among others...
, F.C. Internazionale MilanoF.C. Internazionale MilanoFootball Club Internazionale Milano, often referred to as Internazionale or simply Inter, is a professional Italian football club based in Milan, Italy. Outside Italy, the club is often called Inter Milan. They are the reigning FIFA Club World champions and Coppa Italia holders.Inter have always...
, S.S. LazioS.S. LazioSocietà Sportiva Lazio, commonly referred to as Lazio, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. The team, founded in 1900, play in the Serie A and have spent most of their history in the top tier of Italian football...
, ACF FiorentinaACF FiorentinaACF Fiorentina, commonly referred to as simply Fiorentina, is a professional Italian football club from Florence, Tuscany. Founded by a merger in 1926, Fiorentina have played at the top level of Italian football for the majority of their existence; only four clubs have played in more Serie A...
, A.C. Parma and A.S. RomaA.S. RomaAssociazione Sportiva Roma, commonly referred to as simply Roma, is a professional Italian football club based in Rome. Founded by a merger in 1927, Roma have participated in the top-tier of Italian football for all of their existence but one season in the early 50s...
Waterfalls
- Seven Sisters Waterfall, NorwaySeven Sisters Waterfall, NorwayThe Seven Sisters is the 39th tallest waterfall in Norway. The waterfall consists of seven separate streams, and it is located along the Geirangerfjord in the municipality of Stranda in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The waterfall is located just south of the historic Knivsflå farm, across the...
, a group of waterfalls in the Geirangerfjord - Seven Sisters Waterfall, Grenada, a succession of seven waterfalls in Grenada also called St. Margaret Falls
See also
- Qixi Festival, a Chinese holiday, sometimes called "Seventh Sister's Birthday"