Wikipedia Facts About 7
- James Bond‘s secret agent number is 007
- In the Harry Potter series of novels by J.K. Rowling, seven is said to be the most powerfully magical number.
- The number seven was also significant to Dwarvish culture as portrayed by Tolkien: there were seven fathers of the Dwarves (as recounted in The Silmarillion) and the Dwarves were later given seven rings by Sauron (according to The Lord of the Rings).
- The number of notes in the traditional Western diatonic scale (major or minor)
- In baseball, the 7th Inning stretch attributed to the 27th U.S. President, William Howard Taft.
- In the Seinfeld episode “The Seven“, Seven is the name George Costanza desires to give his first-born, having allegedly promised this to the widow of baseball great Mickey Mantle (whose uniform number was 7). George is enraged, however, when his fiance’s cousin and spouse copy the idea and give the name to their child.
- Seven Pillars of the House of Wisdom (Proverbs 9:1)
- The number of main islands of mythological Atlantis.
- The number of main stars in the constellations of the Big Dipper and Orion.
- The atomic number of nitrogen
- Isaac Newton identified 7 colors of the rainbow – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet
- One of two single-digit numbers that has two syllables in the English language, the other being Zero.
And Of course… 7 (seven;/ˈsɛvən/) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8.
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