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The Seven Sisters are a group of seven private liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and Wellesley College are still women's colleges. Vassar College became coeducational in 1969 and Radcliffe College ...
India. In Indian astrology the Pleiades were known as the nakshatra Kṛttikā which in Sanskrit is translated as "the cutters". [76] The Pleiades are called the star of fire, and their ruling deity is the fire god Agni. It is one of the most prominent of the nakshatra and is associated with anger and stubbornness.
The Pleiades (/ ˈpliːədiːz, ˈpleɪ -, ˈplaɪ -/; [1] Greek: Πλειάδες, Ancient Greek pronunciation: [pleːádes]), were the seven sister- nymphs, companions of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt. [2] Together with their sisters, the Hyades, they were called the Atlantides, Dodonides, or Nysiades, nursemaids and teachers of the infant ...
The Seven Sisters songline, a creation (Dreamtime) story in Aboriginal Australian mythology, linked to Australian Aboriginal astronomy. Seven Sisters of American Protestantism, mainline Protestant denominations. Seven Sisters (Sette Sorelle), most successful Italian Serie A football clubs: Juventus, Milan, Inter, Roma, Lazio, Napoli (replacing ...
Garcia Glenn White was executed by lethal injection in Texas on Tuesday for the murder of 16-year-old identical twin sisters 35 years ago.The execution makes him the sixth death row inmate killed ...
Japanese. Quirk. Half-Cold Half-Hot. Shoto Todoroki (Japanese: 轟 焦凍, Hepburn: Todoroki Shōto), also known by the mononym Shoto (ショート, Shōto), is a superhero and one of the main protagonists of the manga series My Hero Academia, created by Kōhei Horikoshi. Being the only child who inherited both Endeavor and Rei's Quirks, Shoto ...
Seven Sisters (Moscow) Coordinates: 55°42′11″N 37°31′49″E. The main building of Moscow State University, one of the Seven Sisters. The Seven Sisters (Russian: Сталинские высотки, romanized: Stalinskie Vysotki, lit. 'Stalin's high-rises') are a group of seven skyscrapers in Moscow designed in the Stalinist style.
Vassar was the second of the Seven Sisters colleges, higher education schools that were strictly for women, and historically sister institutions to the all-male Ivy League colleges. It was chartered by its namesake, brewer Matthew Vassar, in 1861 in the Hudson Valley, about 70 miles (110 km) north of New York City.