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Seven Sisters (TV series)
Seven Sisters is an upcoming FX drama series for Hulu and Disney+, created by Will Arbery, directed by Sean Durkin, starring Elizabeth Olsen as Adrienne, a sister who hears a mysterious voice; ordered to series December 2025, distinct from the Lucinda Riley adaptation.
Seven Sisters (Сталинские высотки) (Moscow)
The Seven Sisters (Сталинские высотки) are seven Stalin-era skyscrapers built in Moscow between 1947 and 1957, ranging from 136 to 240 meters and including Moscow State University's main building.
Seven Sisters Peaks
Seven Sisters Peaks: 2,747 m multi-summit massif in the Bulkley Ranges, British Columbia, above the Skeena River near Cedarvale; seven Tsimshian/Gitxsan-named summits, first ascent 1941 by Neal M. Carter, within Seven Sisters Provincial Park.
Seven Sisters songline
The Seven Sisters songline, known as Minyipuru (Martu) and Kungkarangkalpa (Aṉangu), is an Aboriginal Australian Ancestral narrative spanning thousands of kilometers of desert, ending with seven sisters rising as the Pleiades.
Seven Sisters station
Seven Sisters station is a London Overground and London Underground Victoria line station in Haringey, north London, opened by the Great Eastern Railway in 1872.
Seven Sleepers
Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (Aṣḥāb al-kahf): Christian legend of youths who flee Decius's persecution into a cave, sleep miraculously, and wake under Theodosius II; retold in Qur'an 18:9-26 with their dog Qitmir and honored at Ephesus, Tarsus, and Afşin.
Seven Social Sins
Seven Social Sins: a list of seven moral failings published by Mahatma Gandhi in Young India on 22 October 1925, actually authored by Anglican priest Frederick Lewis Donaldson; also called the Seven Blunders of the World, with an eighth sin added by Arun Gandhi.
Seven Sorrows
Seven Sorrows (七哀詩, Qi ai shi) is a Chinese yuefu poem title of the late Han dynasty, used for poems of grief over war, plague, death, and separation.
Seven Spirits of God (τὰ ἑπτὰ πνεύματα τοῦ θεοῦ)
The seven spirits of God (τὰ ἑπτὰ πνεύματα τοῦ θεοῦ) are a figure mentioned four times in Revelation, usually interpreted as the Holy Spirit, though some read seven angels.
Seven Stimuli
Seven Stimuli (Qifa, 七發) is a Western Han fu by Mei Sheng in which a guest cures an ailing Chu prince through seven presentations, founding the seven-style genre.
Seven Summits
Seven Summits: the highest mountain on each continent, first completed by Dick Bass in 1985. Two versions differ on the seventh peak: Bass's Kosciuszko (2,228 m) versus Messner's Carstensz Pyramid (4,884 m).
Seven Sundays (2017 film)
Seven Sundays is a 2017 Star Cinema Filipino family comedy-drama directed by Cathy Garcia-Molina, starring Aga Muhlach, Dingdong Dantes, Cristine Reyes, Enrique Gil, and Ronaldo Valdez, about estranged Bonifacio siblings reuniting for their dying father's last seven Sundays; it earned ₱180 million in 18 days.
Seven Swords (七剑)
Seven Swords (七剑) is Tsui Hark's 2005 wuxia film adapted from Liang Yusheng's novel Seven Swords Descending Tianshan, starring Leon Lai, Donnie Yen, and Lau Kar-leung, set under the Qing ban on martial arts, opening the 62nd Venice Film Festival and winning the Golden Horse Best Action Choreography award.
Seven Thousand Cadres Conference
The Seven Thousand Cadres Conference (七千人大会) was a Chinese Communist Party working conference held in Beijing from January to February 1962, attended by about 7,000 cadres to assess the Great Leap Forward.
Seven trumpets
The seven trumpets are a series of judgments in the Book of Revelation, sounded by seven angels after the seventh seal, striking a third of the earth, sea, and humanity.
Seven Types of Ambiguity
Seven Types of Ambiguity is a 1930 work of literary criticism by the English poet William Empson, which treats ambiguity in poetry as a source of richness.
Seven virtues
Seven virtues: the Western Christian set combining four cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance) with three theological virtues (faith, hope, charity), distinct from the remedial virtues set against the seven deadly sins.
Seven Warring States (战国七雄)
The Seven Warring States (战国七雄) were Qin, Chu, Yan, Qi, Han, Zhao, and Wei, the dominant powers of China's Warring States period (475–221 BCE), formed after the partition of Jin and Tian takeover of Qi; Qin conquered the other six by 221 BCE.
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were a list of marvels drawn up by Greek writers in the 2nd century BCE, of which only the Great Pyramid of Giza still stands.
Seven Years Devastation
The Seven Years Devastation, or Chahi Taret Khuntakpa, was the Burmese occupation and devastation of the Manipur valley from 1819 to 1826, ending with the Treaty of Yandabo.
Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film)
Seven Years in Tibet is a 1997 American biographical drama directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Brad Pitt as Austrian climber Heinrich Harrer, who befriends the young Dalai Lama.
Seven Years' War
Seven Years' War (1756–1763), also known in North America as the French and Indian War (from 1754): the first global imperial conflict, pitting Britain and Prussia against France, Austria, Russia, Spain, and Sweden, ending with the Treaties of Paris and Hubertusburg in 1763.
Seven Years' War in Spanish America
The Seven Years' War in Spanish America (Guerra de los Siete Años) was Spain's phase of the Seven Years' War, 1762 to 1763, in which Britain captured Havana and Manila.
Seven Years' War in the Caribbean
The Seven Years' War in the Caribbean (Guerra de los Siete Años en el Caribe) was the West Indian theater of the war, in which Britain took Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Havana.
Seven-arm octopus
Seven-arm octopus (Haliphron atlanticus), also gelatinous giant octopod: deep-sea octopus whose male's hectocotylized third right arm is hidden near the right eye; largest argonautoid, up to 4 m and 75 kg, feeding on jellyfish.
Seven-Branched Sword
The Seven-Branched Sword (칠지도, shichishitō) is a 4th-century iron ceremonial sword from the Korean kingdom of Baekje, kept at Isonokami Shrine in Nara, Japan, and designated a National Treasure.
Seven-card stud
Seven-card stud (7-card stud, Seven-Toed Pete) is a classic stud poker variant: seven cards per player, three down and four up, best five-card hand, ante plus bring-in, fixed-limit betting, with Stud/8 and Razz variants.
Seven-character regulated verse
Seven-character regulated verse (七言律詩, qilü) is a fixed form of Chinese classical poetry in which eight lines of seven characters follow strict tonal, rhyme, and parallel-couplet rules.
Seven-league boots
Seven-league boots (French bottes de sept lieues) are fairy-tale boots letting the wearer stride seven leagues, about 21 miles, per step; from Perrault's 1697 Le Petit Poucet, where the ogre wears them, and a European folklore motif (D1521.1) later used as an idiom for rapid progress.
Seven-segment display
A seven-segment display is an electronic display that forms decimal digits from seven independently controlled elements, usually LEDs, common in clocks, calculators, appliances, and instruments since the late 1960s.