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Seven Lucky Gods

Seven Lucky Gods (七福神, Shichifukujin) are seven Japanese fortune deities, Ebisu, Daikokuten, Bishamonten, Benzaiten, Fukurokuju, Jurojin, and Hotei, assembled from Shinto, Buddhist, and Taoist traditions in Muromachi Kyoto and worshiped through New Year pilgrimages.

Seven Magic Mountains

Seven Magic Mountains is a public art installation by Ugo Rondinone near Las Vegas, Nevada, consisting of seven towers of colorful stacked boulders opened in 2016.

Seven Men from Now

Seven Men from Now (7 Men from Now) is a 1956 Budd Boetticher Western starring Randolph Scott as ex-sheriff Ben Stride hunting his wife's killers, written by Burt Kennedy, first of the Ranown cycle, restored by UCLA in 2000.

Seven Mile Bridge

The Seven Mile Bridge is a 6.79-mile highway bridge in the Florida Keys carrying the Overseas Highway (US 1); the modern bridge opened in 1982 and remains Florida's longest.

Seven Military Classics

The Seven Military Classics (武经七书) is a canon of seven Chinese military texts compiled by imperial order and issued in 1080 as the first printed military curriculum.

Seven minutes in heaven

Seven minutes in heaven, also called seven minutes in the closet, is a kissing party game at teenage parties in which two participants spend seven minutes alone in a closet.

Seven Minutes to Midnight (Heroes)

"Seven Minutes to Midnight" is episode 8 of Heroes season 1 (NBC, November 13, 2006), written by Tim Kring, directed by Paul Edwards; Sylar kills waitress Charlie, Hiro time-travels, title cites the Doomsday Clock.

Seven Mortal Sins

Seven Mortal Sins (Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai, sin 七つの大罪) is a 2017 12-episode ecchi anime by Artland and TNK adapting Hobby Japan's Seven Deadly Sins figure franchise, following fallen archangel Lucifer against seven demon lords; unrelated to Suzuki's shōnen of the same Japanese title.

Seven Nation Army

Seven Nation Army: 2003 single by The White Stripes from Elephant; famous for its octave-pedal bass-sounding guitar riff, Grammy-winning, and a worldwide stadium chant since Italian fans at the 2006 World Cup.

Seven Nations of Canada

The Seven Nations of Canada (les Sept-Nations du Canada) was a confederacy of Catholic mission villages in the St. Lawrence Valley allied with New France.

Seven Network

Seven Network (Channel Seven) is Australia's free-to-air commercial TV network, founded 1956, now part of Southern Cross Media Group after the January 2026 Seven West Media merger; channels 7, 7two, 7mate, 7flix, 7Bravo, Racing.com and 7plus.

Seven O'Clock Breakfast Club for the Brokenhearted

Seven O'Clock Breakfast Club for the Brokenhearted (실연당한 사람들을 위한 일곱 시 조찬모임) is a 2025 South Korean romantic drama directed by Lim Sun-ae, adapted from Baek Young-ok's 2012 novel, starring Suzy and Lee Jin-wook as strangers who swap breakup souvenirs at a 7 a.m. gathering; premiered at the 30th Busan festival, released December 2026.

Seven of Nine

Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One, born Annika Hansen, is a Star Trek ex-Borg character played by Jeri Ryan in Voyager (1997-2001) and Picard, where she becomes Enterprise captain.

Seven on 7

Seven on 7 (Vought News Network: Seven on 7 with Cameron Coleman) is Amazon's 2021-2022 YouTube companion series to The Boys, bridging seasons 2 and 3 with monthly in-world news broadcasts of seven stories plus one commercial.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph is T. E. Lawrence's memoir of his service with Arab forces in the Arab Revolt of 1916–1918, published after his death in 1935.

Seven Points Capital

Seven Points Capital is a New York proprietary trading firm, founded by Michael Katz and Mike Mangieri in 2007, trading US equities and stock options for its own account.

Seven Pounds

Seven Pounds is a 2008 American drama film directed by Gabriele Muccino and starring Will Smith as a man seeking to change the lives of seven strangers.

Seven Psychopaths

Seven Psychopaths is a 2012 black comedy film written and directed by Martin McDonagh, his second feature after In Bruges, starring Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, and Woody Harrelson.

Seven Sages of Greece (οἱ ἑπτὰ σοφοί)

The Seven Sages of Greece, also called the Seven Wise Men, were seven early Greek thinkers of the sixth century BCE, including Thales and Solon.

Seven Sages of Rome

The Seven Sages of Rome, the western form of the Book of Sindbad, is a medieval collection where seven sages delay a prince's execution with daily tales.

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove

The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove (竹林七贤) were seven third-century Chinese scholars who gathered for drinking and conversation in a bamboo grove in Henan.

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and Rong Qiqi

The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and Rong Qiqi is a Southern Dynasties brick mural unearthed in 1960 at Nanjing and held by the Nanjing Museum.

Seven Samurai (七人の侍)

Seven Samurai (七人の侍, Shichinin no samurai) is Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Toho jidaigeki in which farmers hire seven ronin to fight bandits; 207 minutes, Silver Lion at Venice, remade as The Magnificent Seven.

Seven Scholars of Jian'an

The Seven Scholars of Jian'an (建安七子), also called the Seven Masters of Ye, were seven writers of the Jian'an era (196–220) at the end of China's Eastern Han dynasty.

Seven seals

The seven seals of Revelation are the seven seals closing the scroll of Revelation 5:1, opened by the Lamb in visions that release the four horsemen, martyrs, and upheaval.

Seven Seas

The Seven Seas, Latin Septem maria, is a cultural phrase naming various historical sea lists, from the Mediterranean world to Arab trade routes, now meaning all the world's oceans.

Seven Seas Entertainment

Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC: American publisher of manga, light novels, danmei, and webtoons, founded by Jason DeAngelis in 2004; Airship, Ghost Ship, Siren imprints; distributed by PRHPS since 2021; acquired 100% by Media Do International in 2026.

Seven Seconds (TV series)

Seven Seconds is a 2018 Netflix 10-episode limited crime drama by Veena Sud, set in Jersey City and based on Yuri Bykov's Russian film The Major; Regina King won an Emmy for playing Latrice Butler.

Seven Sections of Music

The Seven Sections of Music (七部樂) was the Sui dynasty court banquet-music repertoire, fixed by decree under Emperor Wen and later expanded to nine sections.

Seven Sisters (colleges)

Seven Sisters colleges: Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar, and Wellesley, northeastern women's colleges organized as a 1926 consortium, counterparts to the Ivy League; five remain women-only.