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Seven Boyars
The Seven Boyars (Семибоярщина) was the boyar government that ruled Muscovy from the deposition of Tsar Vasily Shuisky in 1610 until Moscow's liberation in 1612.
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is a 1954 MGM musical directed by Stanley Donen, starring Jane Powell and Howard Keel, based on Stephen Vincent Benét's "The Sobbin' Women", with songs by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer and Michael Kidd's barn-raising choreography; it won the Oscar for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.
Seven bridge
Seven bridge (セブンブリッジ) is a Japanese rummy card game for two to five players, each holding seven cards, with the four sevens given special melding and scoring roles.
Seven Bridges of Königsberg
The Seven Bridges of Königsberg, also known as the Königsberg bridge problem, asks whether a walk through the Prussian city could cross each of its seven bridges exactly once.
Seven cards
Seven cards, also called Ging, a four-player showdown card game known only from Francis Willughby's seventeenth-century game collection; played with a 28-card pack, seven cards each, counters won by suit counts or five sweep combinations.
Seven Churches (music)
Seven Churches is the 1985 debut album by the American band Possessed on Combat Records, often cited as the first true death metal record ever released.
Seven churches of Asia
The Seven churches of Asia, or Seven Churches of Revelation, are seven early Christian congregations in western Turkey named in Revelation 1:11 and addressed in Revelation 2–3.
Seven Cities of Gold
Seven Cities of Gold, or Seven Cities of Cíbola, mythical wealthy Spanish cities sought in the 16th-century American Southwest; the 1539 Marcos de Niza report and 1540-1542 Coronado expedition found only Zuni pueblos such as Hawikuh and no gold.
Seven Days Battles
The Seven Days Battles, June 25 to July 1, 1862, were six engagements near Richmond where Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia drove McClellan's Army of the Potomac back to the James River, ending the Peninsula Campaign and saving the Confederate capital.
Seven Days in May
Seven Days in May is a 1962 Cold War political thriller novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II about a military coup against a disarmament-minded US president, adapted into John Frankenheimer's acclaimed 1964 film starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.
Seven Days to the River Rhine (Семь дней до реки Рейн)
Seven Days to the River Rhine («За семь дней до Рейна»), a 1979 Warsaw Pact command-staff exercise declassified by Poland in 2005, assumed NATO nuclear first strikes and planned a nuclear-conventional counteroffensive reaching the Rhine in six to seven days.
Seven deadly sins
The seven deadly sins, or capital vices, are in Roman Catholic theology seven vices that give rise to other sins: pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth.
Seven Dials Mystery
Seven Dials Mystery, adapted as Agatha Christie's Seven Dials, is a 2026 three-part Netflix miniseries by Chris Chibnall based on Christie's 1929 novel, starring Mia McKenna-Bruce as Bundle Brent with Martin Freeman and Helena Bonham Carter.
Seven dirty words
Seven dirty words: phrase for the profanities in George Carlin's 1972 monologue, at issue in FCC v. Pacifica Foundation (1978), the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling that let the FCC restrict indecent broadcast speech from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Seven Dwarfs
Seven Dwarfs: the seven miners who shelter Snow White in the Grimms' 1812 tale (ATU 709). Unnamed in the original; first individually named in a 1912 Broadway play, then named Doc, Grumpy, and others by Disney's 1937 film.
Seven fires prophecy
The Seven Fires Prophecy is an Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) oral teaching of seven prophets foretelling seven eras, tied to the westward migration, the Fourth Fire's light-skinned race, and the Seventh Fire's choice of two paths leading to the Eighth Fire.
Seven Generations Energy
Seven Generations Energy was a Calgary oil and gas company founded in 2008 that developed liquids-rich Montney resources in Alberta, becoming Canada's largest condensate producer.
Seven gifts of the Holy Spirit
The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord, drawn from Isaiah 11:2–3 and conferred in baptism and confirmation.
Seven Gothic Tales
Seven Gothic Tales, in Danish Syv fantastiske Fortællinger, is the 1934 debut story collection of Danish writer Karen Blixen, published in New York under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen.
Seven heavens
The seven heavens are a layered structure of the sky taught in rabbinic Judaism, the Quran, and apocalyptic texts, dividing heaven into seven successive realms rather than one.
Seven hills of Rome
Seven hills of Rome: Palatine, Capitoline, Aventine, Caelian, Esquiline, Viminal, Quirinal, the canonical elevations of ancient Rome on the Tiber's east bank, volcanic in origin, first settled around 2000 BC, with a list unknown in any ancient author.
Seven Hours After Violet
Seven Hours After Violet (SHAV) is an American metalcore band formed in 2024 by System of a Down bassist Shavo Odadjian with Taylor Barber, Morgoth, Alejandro Aranda, and Josh Johnson; debut album October 11, 2024 on Sumerian.
Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality
Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality (Siete ensayos de interpretación de la realidad peruana) is a 1928 book by José Carlos Mariátegui applying Marxist analysis to Peru's economy, land, and Indigenous population.
Seven Lakes (Ҳафткӯл) (Tajikistan)
Seven Lakes (Ҳафткӯл, Haft Kul, Marguzor Lakes) is a chain of seven landslide-dammed mountain lakes in the Shing River gorge, Fann Mountains, near Penjikent, Tajikistan, rising from about 1,640 m to 2,400 m.
Seven Laws of Noah (שבע מצוות בני נח)
Seven Laws of Noah (Sheva Mitzvot B'nei Noach, Noahide laws): seven Talmudic commandments (Sanhedrin 56a) that rabbinic tradition binds on all non-Jews, covering courts, blasphemy, idolatry, sexual relations, murder, theft, and living-animal flesh, with a modern Noahide movement.
Seven Little Australians
Seven Little Australians is an 1894 children's novel by Ethel Turner about the seven children of Captain Woolcot and their stepmother in 1890s Sydney.
Seven Luck Casino Busan Lotte
Seven Luck Casino Busan Lotte (세븐럭 부산 롯데점), a foreigner-only casino in Lotte Hotel Busan run by state-owned Grand Korea Leisure; opened 23 June 2006, 41 table games, open 24/7.
Seven Luck Casino Dragon City
Seven Luck Casino Seoul Dragon City (세븐럭카지노 서울드래곤시티점) is a GKL-run, foreigners-only casino on the 5th floor of Seoul Dragon City's Convention Tower in Yongsan, opened December 31, 2022, replacing the Gangbuk Hilton branch; 55 tables, 24/7, 19+ with passport.
Seven Luck Casino Gangbuk Hilton
Seven Luck Casino Gangbuk Hilton (세븐 럭 카지노 강북 힐튼 점) was GKL's foreigner-only casino at the Millennium Seoul Hilton, opened May 26, 2006, renovated 2010, closed end of 2022 and relocated to Seoul Dragon City.
Seven Luck Casino Gangnam Coex
Seven Luck Casino Gangnam Coex, a foreigner-only casino in the COEX Convention Annex, Samseong-dong, Gangnam, Seoul; opened January 27, 2006, run 24/7 by Grand Korea Leisure, with table games and slots.