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The " Seven Sisters " was a term coined in the 1950s by businessman Enrico Mattei, then-head of the Italian state oil company Eni, to describe the seven oil companies which formed the " Consortium for Iran " cartel and dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.
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The former Weights and Measures office in Seven Sisters, London.
Prominent examples in the US include the so-called Little Three, Colby-Bates-Bowdoin, and Little Ivy colleges in New England, the surviving, predominantly female Seven Sisters colleges along the northeastern seaboard, and the Claremont Colleges in Southern California, but similar institutions are found all over the country.
* 1872 – Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins ; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
Seven Sisters is the common name for the Pleiades, a star cluster named for mythological characters.
Seven Sisters may also refer to:
* Seven Sisters ( colleges ), a group of American women's colleges
* The Seven Sisters of American Protestantism, an informal grouping of seven traditional mainline and liberal Protestant denominations
* Seven Sisters, Baja California, Seven epic point breaks in Baja California, Mexico
* Seven Sisters, British Columbia, a mountain range in British Columbia, Canada
* Seven Sisters, Donegal, a mountain chain in County Donegal, Ireland
* Seven Sisters Rocks, in the Wye Valley, Herefordshire
* Seven Sisters, London, an area and road in England with a railway and underground station of that name
** Seven Sisters station, a rail station and underground ( tube ) station at Tottenham, London
** Seven Sisters Road, a road in North London
* Seven Sisters, Manitoba, a community in Manitoba, Canada
* Seven Sisters, Mars, a group of seven high altitude caves on the planet Mars near Arsia Mons
* Seven Sisters ( Massachusetts ), a group of ridgeline knobs located in the Holyoke Range of Western Massachusetts
* Seven Sisters ( Moscow ), a group of seven Stalinist skyscrapers in Moscow, Russia
* De syv søstre ( Seven Sisters ), a mountain formation in Helgeland, Norway
* Seven Sisters ( Queensland ), a group of small mountains on the Atherton Tableland in Australia
* Seven Sisters, Sussex, a group of chalk cliffs in England
* Seven Sisters, Neath Port Talbot, a village in South Wales
* The Seven Sisters ( 1915 film ), a 1915 silent film starring Marguerite Clark and released by Paramount Pictures
Seven and was
Seven years later he was asked to become director of the Pittsburgh Symphony.
Pete was down on Seven, Dick told me, and he'd meet us there.
Pete came to meet us when we stepped out of the elevator on Seven -- he'd had a case of post-operative shock, but it was all taken care of now.
Late in the afternoon, I was up on Seven again.
A peculiar feature of these Taoist thinkers, like the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, was the concept of feng liu ( lit.
* Melanchrus-he was overthrown sometime between 612 BC and 609 BC by a faction that, in addition to the brothers of Alcaeus, included Pittacus ( later renowned as one of the Seven Sages of Greece ); Alcaeus at that time was too young to be actively involved ;
He was reckoned by some ancient authors as one of the Seven Sages of Greece, and it is said that he was initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries of the Great Goddess, a privilege denied to those who did not speak fluent Greek.
The Seven Sorrows Polyptych, commissioned by Frederick III of Saxony in 1496, was executed by Dürer and his assistants c. 1500.
In 1762 he was promoted to Lieutenant, but was placed on half pay when the Seven Years ' War ended in 1763.
One further oddity in his writings is that in one of his works, the Commentary on the Seven Catholic Epistles, he writes in a manner that gives the impression he was married.
The series was originally aired on BBC1 from 15 June 1983 to 20 July 1983, and was a joint production with the Australian Seven Network.
In 2012, a graphic adaptation of the Book of Esther was illustrated by J. T. Waldman and appeared in volume one of The Graphic Canon, edited by Russ Kick and published by Seven Stories Press.
In fact, IBM's share of the market at the time was so much larger than all of the others, that this group was often referred to as " IBM and the Seven Dwarfs.
Although Douglas was always second billed under Lancaster in these films, their roles were usually more or less the same size with the exceptions of I Walk Alone, in which Douglas played a villain, and in Seven Days in May, where Douglas ' part was larger than Lancaster's but not as dramatic.
In 1857 Charles Newton was to discover the 4th-century BC Mausoleum of Halikarnassos, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Less than a year after Havana was seized, the Peace of Paris was signed by the three warring powers, ending the Seven Years ' War.
A peculiar feature of these Taoist thinkers, like the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, was the concept of feng liu ( lit.
A peculiar feature of these Taoist thinkers, like the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, was the concept of feng liu ( lit.
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