Seven Sisters
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Seven Sisters may refer to:
- Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, a star cluster named for Pleiades (Greek mythology), the seven sisters who are companions of Artemis in Greek mythology
Arts and entertainment
[edit]Music
[edit]- Seven Sisters (Beta Radio album), 2010
- Seven Sisters (Meja album), 1998
- "Seven Sisters", an instrumental by Tori Amos from Night of Hunters, 2011
- "Seven Sisters", a song by MewithoutYou from Catch for Us the Foxes, 2004
- "Seven Sisters", a song by the Sword from Apocryphon, 2012
- "The Seven Sisters", a song by Celldweller from Wish Upon a Blackstar, 2012
- "The Seven Sisters", a song by Rainer Maria from A Better Version of Me, 2001
Films
[edit]- The Seven Sisters (film), a 1915 American silent romantic comedy
- Seven Sisters (film), or What Happened to Monday, a 2017 dystopian science-fiction film
Books and plays
[edit]- The Seven Sisters (musical), an 1860 musical
- The Seven Sisters, a 1975 book by Anthony Sampson about the Seven Sisters (oil companies)
- The Seven Sisters (novel), 1992 novel by Margaret Drabble
- The Seven Sisters, 2014–2023 book series by Lucinda Riley
Theatre
[edit]- Seven Sisters Group, a 1990 British performance company
Other media
[edit]- Seven sisters (studios), the seven original major movie studios
- Seven Sisters (magazines), a group of American women's magazines
- Seven Sisters (Forgotten Realms), fictional characters from the Forgotten Realms role-playing game
- The Seven Sisters (role-playing game supplement)
Biology
[edit]- Seven Sisters Oak, largest southern live oak registered in the U.S.
- Jungle babbler, a type of bird known as seven sisters in northern India
- Crinum americanum, a plant commonly known as seven sisters
- Sterculia monosperma, a type of nut from Southern China known as seven sisters' fruit
Organizations
[edit]- Big Oil, various lists of seven companies said to dominate the oil industry at various times
- Seven Sisters (colleges), the name given to seven US liberal arts colleges that are historically women's colleges
- Seven Sisters (law firms), seven Canadian law firms
Places
[edit]Australia
[edit]- Seven Sisters (Queensland), a group of small mountains on the Atherton Tableland in Australia
Continental Europe
[edit]- Seven Sisters (Moscow), a group of skyscrapers in Russia
- Seven Sisters Waterfall (Norway) , Geirangerfjord
- De syv søstre (Seven Sisters), a mountain formation in Helgeland, Norway
Ireland
[edit]- Seven Sisters, Donegal, a mountain chain in County Donegal, Ireland
North America
[edit]- Seven Sisters (Massachusetts), a group of ridgeline knobs in the Holyoke Range of Western Massachusetts, US
- Seven Sisters, Baja California, seven surfing point breaks in Baja California, Mexico
- Seven Sisters Falls, Manitoba, a community in Manitoba, Canada
- Seven Sisters Mountain, Alberta, Canada
- Seven Sisters Peaks, British Columbia, Canada
- Seven Sisters, Texas, US
United Kingdom
[edit]England
[edit]- Seven Sisters, London
- Seven Sisters station, a rail and Tube station
- Seven Sisters Road, North London
- Seven Sisters (Quantock Hills), a prominent Somerset landmark
- Seven Sisters Road, St Lawrence, Isle of Wight
- Seven Sisters, Sussex, a group of chalk cliffs
- Seven Sisters Rocks, Symonds Yat, Herefordshire
Wales
[edit]- Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot, a village
- Seven Sisters (electoral ward), an electoral ward, Neath Port Talbot
Hong Kong
[edit]- Tsat Tsz Mui (Seven Sisters), an area and road in Hong Kong
India
[edit]- Seven Sister States, a region in northeastern India
Other uses
[edit]- The Seven Sisters songline, a creation (Dreamtime) story in Aboriginal Australian mythology,
- linked to Australian Aboriginal astronomy
- Seven Sisters of American Protestantism, mainline Protestant denominations
- Seven Sisters (Sette Sorelle), most successful Italian Serie A football clubs: Juventus, Milan, Inter, Roma, Lazio, Napoli (replacing Parma), and Fiorentina
See also
[edit]- Pleiades in folklore and literature, often termed the Seven Sisters