What is "seven sisters"

"the Pleiades," early 15c. (see Pleiades), seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione, placed among the stars by Zeus. The Pleiades also are known as the Seven Stars (see seven). As a late-20c. name for the major multi-national petroleum companies, it is attested from 1962. They were listed in 1976 as Exxon, Mobil, Gulf, Standard Oil of California, Texaco, British Petroleum, and Royal Dutch Shell.

Seven Sisters may refer to:

• Pleiades or Seven Sisters, a star cluster named for mythological characters

"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. The group comprised Anglo-Persian Oil Company (now BP); Gulf Oil, Standard Oil of California (now Chevron), Texaco (later merged with Chevron); Royal Dutch Shell; Standard Oil of New Jersey (Esso/Exxon) and Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony) (trading as Mobil now part of ExxonMobil).

Prior to the oil crisis of 1973, the members of the Seven Sisters controlled around 85 percent of the world's petroleum reserves; but since then, industry dominance has shifted to the OPEC cartel and state-owned oil companies in emerging-market economies, such as Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabia), China National Petroleum Corporation (China), Gazprom (Russia), National Iranian Oil Company (Iran), Petrobras (Brazil), PDVSA (Venezuela), and Petronas (Malaysia).

The Seven Sisters is a loose association of seven liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges. They are Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Radcliffe College, Smith College, Vassar College, and Wellesley College. All were founded between 1837 and 1889. Four are in Massachusetts, two are in New York, and one is in Pennsylvania. Radcliffe (which merged with Harvard College) and Vassar (which is now coeducational) are no longer women's colleges.

The Seven Sisters— fictional characters of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting of the Dungeons & Dragons Role Playing Game. The sisters are epic level characters (characters possessing nearly super-human levels of skill and power) of differing abilities, most of which involve some form of spellcasting and use of magic. Created by Ed Greenwood, they have been featured in multiple novels, games, and officially created scenarios by an equally large number of authors/game-designers.

The seven sisters of the Hollywood film industry were the major movie studios of the period between the early 1980s, when The Walt Disney Studios emerged as a major, and 2005, when MGM was acquired by a consortium including Sony Pictures Entertainment. The seven sisters were:

1. Columbia TriStar Pictures — a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment
2. Walt Disney Pictures/ Touchstone Pictures — divisions of The Walt Disney Company
3. 20th Century Fox Film Corporation — a division of 21st Century Fox
4. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/ United Artists — a subsidiary of MGM Holdings
5. Paramount Pictures — a subsidiary of Viacom
6. Universal Studios — a subsidiary of Comcast
7. Warner Bros. Pictures — a subsidiary of Time Warner

The Seven Sisters are a series of seven volcanic mounds on the Atherton Tableland, near Yungaburra, Queensland, Australia.

Beta Radio's self-released debut album, Seven Sisters combines studio recorded material with home recorded tracks that were captured in Beta Radio guitarist Holloman's spare bedroom and living room. Seven Sisters was originally conceived as an EP, but over the course of a few months morphed in to a full-length recording after the band left the recording studio.

Seven Sisters (Deluxe Edition) by Beta Radio is a special edition vinyl LP release of their debut album Seven Sisters with the addition of two tracks recorded after the original studio sessions. The additional two tracks were composed and recorded for the CW television series Hart of Dixie.

The Seven Sisters are a group of seven skyscrapers in Moscow designed in the Stalinist style. The term "Seven Sisters" is neither used nor understood by the local population; Muscovites call them Vysotki or Stalinskie Vysotki , meaning "(Stalin's) high-rises" (or "Stalinist skyscrapers"). They were built from 1947 to 1953, in an elaborate combination of Russian Baroque and Gothic styles.

The seven are: Hotel Ukraina, Kotelnicheskaya Embankment Apartments, the Kudrinskaya Square Building, the Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya Hotel, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs main building, the main building of the Moscow State University, and the Red Gates Administrative Building. There were two more skyscrapers in the same style that were never built: the Zaryadye Administrative Building and the Palace of the Soviets.

The Seven Sisters, part of the Holyoke Range and located within the Pioneer Valley region of Massachusetts, are a series of basalt ridgeline knobs between Mount Holyoke and Mount Hitchcock (there are actually more than seven distinct peaks). The knobs offer scenic clifftop views interspersed with oak savanna woodlands. The highest "sister" has an elevation of and stands above the valley below. The terrain is very rugged; a continuous walk along the ridgeline includes an overall elevation change of . The Seven Sisters are traversed by the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail and is part of the New England National Scenic Trail

The Seven Sisters are the location of the Seven Sisters Trail Race every spring, a twelve-mile (19 km) "out-and-back" run that often leaves its runners bloody, bruised and exhausted. 1

In response to a proposed suburban development on the Seven Sisters in the late 1990s, several non-profit groups and local governments worked together to block construction and acquire the ridgeline for the J.A. Skinner State Park.

Coincidentally, the seven sisters are near two of the Seven Sisters Colleges.

Seven Sisters is the second studio album by Swedish singer-songwriter Meja, released in 1998 by Columbia Records. Again she collaborated with Billy Steinberg, along with her producer Douglas Carr and Jörgen Elofsson. The album came to be her international breakthrough with her massive hit " All 'bout the Money". The song was released worldwide and gave her awards such as “Best Album of the Year” “Best selling scandinavial artist” at the World Music Awards in Monte Carlo and “Best Pop Album” The album also features singles like “Intimacy” and “Pop & Television” The album sold approximately 1 million units worldwide. “All About the Money” was also featured as a soundtrack to the Chevy Chase movie Funny Money in 2006. The album was produced by Douglas Carr.

Seven Sisters is an electoral ward of the Welsh principal area of Neath Port Talbot County Borough. The ward, which includes, as well as Seven Sisters proper, the lesser settlements of Bryndulais and Nant-y-cafn, is coterminous with the area served by the Seven Sisters Community Council.

Lying in the upper Dulais Valley – in which coalmine workings are still very evident (the village is named after Seven Sisters Colliery which closed in the early 1960s) – the area is characterized by extensive forestry to the north, east and south, and open moorland in the northwest and central areas.

In the 2012 local council elections, the result from Seven Sisters was:

|Candidate

|Party

|Votes

|Status

|Steve Hunt

Independent

764

Independent hold

|Jako Davies

Labour

241

Voter turnout was 62.86%.

Category:Communities in Neath Port Talbot

The Seven Sisters refers to a collection of seven leading Canadian law firms with offices in Toronto. According to Legal Week, these firms have "fundamentally dominated" the Canadian legal market for the last several decades. The term can be traced back to at least 2001, when it may have been coined by Sandra Rubin to describe the top seven Canadian law firms in Toronto by mergers and acquisitions deal volume. These seven firms are still referred to as the Seven Sisters, regardless of how their deal volume presently ranks. In alphabetical order the Seven Sisters are:

• Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
• Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
• Goodmans LLP
• McCarthy Tétrault LLP
• Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
• Stikeman Elliott LLP
• Torys LLP

The Seven Sisters are a group of magazines which have traditionally been aimed at married women who are homemakers with husbands and children, rather than single and working women. The name is derived from the Greek myth of the "seven sisters", also known as the Pleiades. Five of the magazines are still published:

• Better Homes and Gardens
• Good Housekeeping
• Family Circle
• Redbook
• Woman's Day

The sixth sister, Ladies' Home Journal ceased monthly publication in April 2014 as Meredith stated they would be "transitioning Ladies' Home Journal to a special interest publication".

The seventh sister, McCall's, ceased publication in 2002 after an ill-fated attempt to rebrand itself (under the name Rosie) by teaming up with talk-show host Rosie O'Donnell. O'Donnell and the publisher were unable to agree upon editorial decisions, and both parties filed breach-of-contract lawsuits against the other.

After a wave of consolidation and mergers, two companies now own the six remaining sisters: Meredith Corporation publishes Better Homes and Gardens, Family Circle, and Ladies' Home Journal; and Hearst Corporation publishes Good Housekeeping, Redbook, and Woman's Day. While their circulation has slipped from their figures in the 1960s and 1970s, they are among the highest circulation magazines in the United States.