Seven Sisters may refer to:
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Pleiades
The Pleiades (), also known as The Seven Sisters, Messier 45 and other names by different cultures, is an asterism and an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars in the north-west of the constellation Taurus. At a distance of ...
, or Seven Sisters, a star cluster named for
Pleiades (Greek mythology)
The Pleiades (; grc-gre, Πλειάδες, Ancient Greek pronunciation: ), were the seven sister-nymph, nymphs, companions of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. Together with their seven sisters, the Hyades (mythology), Hyades, they were called ...
, the seven sisters who are companions of Artemis in Greek mythology
Arts and entertainment
Music
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''Seven Sisters'' (Beta Radio album), an album by the American band Beta Radio
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''Seven Sisters'' (Meja album), an album by the Swedish composer and singer Meja
* "Seven Sisters", an instrumental piece by Tori Amos from Her 2011 album, ''
Night of Hunters
''Night of Hunters'' is the twelfth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Tori Amos, released on September 20, 2011, in the United States through Deutsche Grammophon. It is a concept album that Amos has described as "a 21st century son ...
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* "Seven Sisters", a song by American band MewithoutYou from their album, ''
Catch for Us the Foxes
''Catch for Us the Foxes'' is the second studio album by the Philadelphia indie rock band mewithoutYou, released on October 15, 2004 by Tooth & Nail Records.
Background
The album takes its name from the Biblical Song of Songs 2:15, "Catch for u ...
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* "Seven Sisters", a song by American metal band The Sword from their album, ''
Apocryphon
Apocryphon ("secret writing"), plural apocrypha, was a Greek term for a genre of Jewish and Early Christian writings that were meant to impart "secret teachings" or gnosis (knowledge) that could not be publicly taught. Such private instruction to ...
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* ''Seven Sisters: A Kentucky Portrait'', 2003 album by the San Francisco bluegrass group ''The Crooked Jades''
* "The Seven Sisters", a song by American band Rainer Maria from their album, ''
A Better Version of Me''
* "The Seven Sisters", a song by electronic-rock artist Celldweller from his album, ''
Wish Upon a Blackstar
''Wish Upon a Blackstar'' is the second vocal studio album (third overall) from American electronic rock project, Celldweller. While the album had been a work in progress since 2004, finalized songs from the album were not released until mid-2009. ...
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*The Seven Sisters are referenced by the band Ghost in their song ‘Respite on the Spitalfields’ on their 2022 album ‘Impera’.
Films
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''The Seven Sisters'' (film), a 1915 silent film
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We Were Seven Sisters
''We Were Seven Sisters'' ( it, Eravamo sette sorelle) is a 1939 Italian " white-telephones" romantic comedy film directed by Nunzio Malasomma and starring Antonio Gandusio.
Cast
* Antonio Gandusio as Il conte Leone Varani
* Nino Besozzi as L ...
'', a 1939 film
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What Happened to Monday
''What Happened to Monday'' (known in several territories as ''Seven Sisters'') is a 2017 dystopian science-fiction action thriller film directed by Tommy Wirkola and written by Max Botkin and Kerry Williamson. The film stars Noomi Rapace, Glen ...
'', a 2017 film known as ''Seven Sisters'' in several European countries, Canada, and Japan
Books and plays
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''The Seven Sisters'' (play), an 1860 play
* ''The Seven Sisters'', a 1975 book by Anthony Sampson about the
Seven Sisters (oil companies)
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 Music
* ''Seven Sisters'' (Beta Radio album) ...
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''The Seven Sisters'' (novel), 1992 novel by Margaret Drabble
* ''The Seven Sisters'', 2014–present book series by
Lucinda Riley
Lucinda Kate Riley (; 16 February 1965 – 11 June 2021)Stephanie Bell ''Belfast Telegraph'', 14 July 2016 was a Northern Irish author of popular historical fiction, originally an actress.
Biography
Lucinda Edmonds was born in Lisburn and spent ...
Theatre
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Seven Sisters Group, a 1990 British performance company
Other media
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Seven sisters (studios)
Major film studios are production and distribution companies that release a substantial number of films annually and consistently command a significant share of box office revenue in a given market. In the American and international markets, th ...
, the seven original major movie studios
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Seven Sisters (magazines)
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 Music
* ''Seven Sisters'' (Beta Radio album) ...
, a group of American women's magazines
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Seven Sisters (''Forgotten Realms''), fictional characters from the ''Forgotten Realms'' role-playing game
Biology
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Seven Sisters Oak, largest southern live oak registered in the U.S.
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Jungle babbler
The jungle babbler (''Argya striata'') is a member of the family Leiothrichidae found in the Indian subcontinent. Jungle babblers are gregarious birds that forage in small groups of six to ten birds, a habit that has given them the popular name ...
, a type of bird known as seven sisters in northern India
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Crinum americanum
''Crinum americanum'' is an aquatic angiosperm native to North America from Texas to South Carolina, as well as Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Common names for this species include Florida swamp-lily, string lily, and southern swa ...
'', a plant commonly known as seven sisters
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Sterculia monosperma
''Sterculia monosperma'' (; th, เกาลัดไทย), also known as Chinese chestnut, Thai chestnut, seven sisters' fruit, and phoenix eye fruit, is a deciduous tropical nut-bearing tree of genus '' Sterculia''.
Distribution
Its ori ...
'', a type of nut from Southern China known as seven sisters' fruit
Organizations
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Big Oil
Big Oil is a name used to describe the world's six or seven largest publicly traded and investor-owned oil and gas companies, also known as supermajors. The term, particularly in the United States, emphasizes their economic power and influence ...
prior to the 1970s oil crisis, of which seven companies, referred to as the "Seven Sisters", dominated the oil industry
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Seven Sisters (colleges)
The Seven Sisters refers to seven highly selective liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges: Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and Wellesley College are ...
, the name given to seven US liberal arts colleges that are historically women's colleges
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Seven Sisters (law firms) The Seven Sisters refers to a historical collection of seven law firms with offices across Canada, majority of which have head offices in Toronto, Ontario.
History
The term "Seven Sisters" was originally coined by John Alexander Black, founder of L ...
, seven Canadian law firms
Places
Australia
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Seven Sisters (Queensland)
The Pinnacles (aka the Seven Sisters) are a series of seven volcanic cinder cones on the Atherton Tableland, near Yungaburra, Queensland, Australia. They were formed more than 350 000 years ago.
The vents have an overall southwest-northeast ...
, a group of small mountains on the Atherton Tableland in Australia
Continental Europe
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Seven Sisters (Moscow)
The Seven Sisters (russian: links=no, Сталинские высотки, Stalinskie Vysotki, Stalin's high-rises) are a group of seven skyscrapers in Moscow designed in the Stalinist style. They were built from 1947 to 1953 in an elaborate c ...
, a group of skyscrapers in Russia
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Seven Sisters Waterfall, Norway
The Seven Sisters ( no, De Syv Søstrene or , also known as ) is the 39th tallest waterfall in Norway. The tall waterfall consists of seven separate streams, and the tallest of the seven has a free fall that measures .
The waterfall is located ...
, Geirangerfjord
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De syv søstre
or is a mountain range on the island of Alsten in Alstahaug Municipality in Nordland county, Norway.
The mountain range consists of seven peaks on the southeastern half of the island. The mountains are (listed from northeast to southwest):
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(Seven Sisters), a mountain formation in Helgeland, Norway
Ireland
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Seven Sisters, Donegal
The 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 (751 m)
*Mackoght a.k ...
, a mountain chain in County Donegal, Ireland
North America
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Seven Sisters (Massachusetts)
The Seven Sisters, part of the Holyoke Range and located within the Pioneer Valley region of Massachusetts, United States, are a series of basalt ridgeline knobs between Mount Holyoke and Mount Hitchcock (there are more than seven distinct peaks ...
, a group of ridgeline knobs in the Holyoke Range of Western Massachusetts, US
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Seven Sisters, Baja California, seven surfing point breaks in Baja California, Mexico
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Seven Sisters Falls, Manitoba
Seven Sisters Falls is a community in the Rural Municipality of Whitemouth, Manitoba.
It is the location of Manitoba Hydro's Seven Sisters Generating Station and the Whitemouth Falls Provincial Park. Seven Sisters Falls was named by fur traders f ...
, a community in Manitoba, Canada
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Seven Sisters Mountain, Alberta, Canada
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Seven Sisters Peaks
Seven Sisters Peaks is a multi-summit massif located in the Bulkley Ranges of the Interior Mountains in British Columbia, Canada. The massif is situated within Seven Sisters Provincial Park and Protected Area, southeast of Cedarvale, south o ...
, British Columbia, Canada
United Kingdom
England
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Seven Sisters, London
Seven Sisters is a district of Tottenham, north London, England, at the eastern end of Seven Sisters Road, which runs from Tottenham High Road
Tottenham High Road is the main thoroughfare through the district of Tottenham, in the London Borou ...
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Seven Sisters station
Seven Sisters is a National Rail, London Overground and London Underground Victoria line station in the Seven Sisters area of the London Borough of Haringey, north London. The station has two entrances/exits, one on Tottenham High Road and t ...
, a rail and Tube station
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Seven Sisters Road
Seven 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 (the A1 road) at the Nags Head crossroads then on to another ...
, North London
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Seven Sisters (Quantock Hills), a prominent Somerset landmark
* Seven Sisters Road,
St Lawrence, Isle of Wight
St Lawrence is a village on the south (English Channel) coast of the Isle of Wight, in southern England. It is located to the west of Ventnor, in the Undercliff, which is subject to landslips. The Undercliff lies between the original high cliff a ...
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Seven Sisters, Sussex
The Seven Sisters are a series of chalk sea cliffs on the English Channel coast, and are a stretch of the sea-eroded section of the South Downs range of hills, in the county of East Sussex, in south-east England. The Seven Sisters cliffs run b ...
, a group of chalk cliffs
* Seven Sisters Rocks,
Symonds Yat
Symonds Yat is a village in the Wye Valley and a popular tourist destination, straddling the River Wye in the English county of Herefordshire, close to the Gloucestershire border. It is within a few miles of Monmouthshire and the Welsh border. ...
, Herefordshire
Wales
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Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot
Seven Sisters ( cy, Blaendulais: source of the (river) Dulais) is a village and community in the Dulais Valley, Wales, UK. It lies north-east of Neath. Seven Sisters falls within the Seven Sisters ward of Neath Port Talbot county borough.
H ...
, a village
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Seven Sisters (electoral ward), an electoral ward, Neath Port Talbot
China
Hong Kong
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Tsat Tsz Mui
Tsat Tsz Mui or Braemar Point is a neighbourhood, formerly a village, east of North Point, in Hong Kong. It is centred on Tsat Tsz Mui Road.
Name
Tsat Tsz Mui in Cantonese means "seven sisters". There was a tragic story about them. Once upon a ...
(Seven Sisters), an area and road in Hong Kong
India
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Seven Sister States
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, a region in northeastern India
Other uses
* The Seven Sisters songline, a creation (Dreamtime) story in
Aboriginal Australian mythology
Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology is the sacred spirituality represented in the stories performed by Aboriginal Australians within each of the language groups across Australia in their ceremonies. Aboriginal spirituality includes ...
,
**linked to
Australian Aboriginal astronomy
Australian Aboriginal astronomy is a name given to Aboriginal Australian culture relating to astronomical subjects – such as the Sun and Moon, the stars, planets, and the Milky Way, and their motions on the sky.
Traditional Aboriginal ...
* Seven Sisters of American Protestantism,
mainline Protestant
The mainline Protestant churches (also called mainstream Protestant and sometimes oldline Protestant) are a group of Protestant denominations in the United States that contrast in history and practice with evangelical, fundamentalist, and charis ...
denominations
* ''Seven Sisters'' (''Sette Sorelle''), top Italian
Serie A
The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa ...
football clubs
See also
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Pleiades in folklore and literature
High visibility of the star cluster Pleiades in the night sky and its position along the ecliptic (which approximates to the solar system's common planetary plane) has given it importance in many cultures, ancient and modern. Its heliacal rising, ...
, often termed the Seven Sisters
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