The Number 7

[edelweiss]

So, randomly during Health I remembered about talking to Wheeler-Smith about the number 7 and I decided to look for stuff on it...there is SO much and this is just the good stuff.

Throughout mythology and general knowledge:
7 deadly sins
7 notes (do, re, mi, fa, so la, ti)
7 colors in the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet)
7 days in a week
7 Wonders of the ancient world
7 Wonders of the natural world
7 Hills of Rome (Palatine (on which the original Romulus was built), Capitoline, Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Caelin, and Aventine)
7 Dwarves (Doc, Bashful, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, and Sneezy)
7 daughters of Atlas (called the "Seven Sisters"
7 continents
7 is the number of times you can fold a piece of paper
7 is the number of points on a Sheriff's star
7th son a werewolf in Galician folklore
7th son of a 7th son will be a vampire
7 is the number that is added on any standard six-sided dice
7 kingdoms became of England after the Anglo-Saxon conquest (Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Wessex)
7 seas
In books:
7 Chronicles of Narnia
7 rings are given to the Dwarves in The Lord of the Rings
Harry Potter
-7 years at Hogwarts
-7 Horcruxes
-7 people on a Quidditch Team
Edgar Allen Poe
-7 bells said consecutively in "The Bells
-7 rooms in "The Masque of the Red Death"

Comments

[rebel-angela.livejournal.com]

Lot's of seveny things!
Cheers...