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The Seven Sisters are seen in the background of the Quidditch World Cup in the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and also when Slartibartfast is showing Arthur Dent the "new" Earth in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, released the same year. Much of the 2015 feature film Mr. Holmes was filmed around the Seven Sisters.
The name Seven Sisters is a reference to the Greek myth of the Pleiades, goddesses immortalized as stars in the sky: [1] Maia, Electra, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope, and Merope. [2] These colleges were created in the 19th century to provide women with the educational equivalent to the historically all-male Ivy League colleges.
The Dorset map of 1619 [2] shows the area known today as Seven Sisters named as Page Greene. However, by 1805 the first series Ordnance Survey map was showing the area as Seven Sisters. [3] The name is derived from seven elms which were planted in a circle with a walnut tree at their centre on an area of common land known as Page Green. [4]
The sobriquet 'Land of the Seven Sisters' was coined to coincide with the inauguration of the new states in January 1972 by Jyoti Prasad Saikia, [47] a journalist in Tripura, in the course of a radio talk show. He later compiled a book on the interdependence and commonness of the Seven Sister States.
Beachy Head is a chalk headland in East Sussex, England.It is situated close to Eastbourne, immediately east of the Seven Sisters.. Beachy Head is located within the administrative area of Eastbourne Borough Council which owns the land, forming part of the Eastbourne Downland Estate.
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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 ...
Seven Sisters, a wildland in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests of western Virginia, has been recognized by the Wilderness Society as a special place worthy of protection from logging and road construction. The Wilderness Society has designated the area as a "Mountain Treasure".