These are just WAY too good to waste

My daily countdown gift from Jillian...too good not to share with all of you. [Also, I've just come back from two fillings at the dentist and am not feeling very witty. Lucky for me, J is witty enough for all of us.]

Today's number: Seven!

Seven is also:
-The largest number of sticks (or other cylindrical objects) that can be tied into a bundle such that the shape of the bundle remains fixed. This may have led to the number being viewed with mystical significance by ancient man.
- The number of openings into the human head (mouth, two eyes, two ears, two nostrils).
- The number of spheres in the Ptolemaic system
- In Astrology, Libra is the 7th astrological sign of the Zodiac.
- The traditional number of Wonders of the Ancient World.
- Viewed as a lucky number in many Western cultures, and in Japanese culture.
- The number of days in a week. Whether Saturday or Sunday is the seventh day varies across cultures.
- The number of the ages of man into which William Shakespeare divided a lifetime
- The figurative number of seas
- The number of colors of the rainbow (the asteroid 7 Iris is named after the rainbow goddess Iris)
- The number of basic principles of the bushido
- The number of points on a sheriff's star
- The average number of digits that can be stored in short-term memory<
- In Galician folklore, a seventh son will be a werewolf. In other folklores, after six daughters, the seventh child is to be a son and a werewolf. In other European folklores, the seventh son of a seventh son will be a vampire.
- When rolling two standard six-sided dice, seven is the number most likely to occur.
- Seven is the sum of any two opposite sides on a standard six-sided die
- The number of dwarves in the movie Snow White
- The number of rings given to the Dwarf Lords in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
- The Heptarchy, from the (Greek for seven realm, is the name applied by historians to the period (500-850 AD) in English history after the Anglo-Saxon conquest of England, derived from the seven kingdoms of Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex, and Wessex, which eventually merged to become the Kingdom of England during the early 10th century.
- September was the seventh month in the ancient Roman calendar, as its name indicates. After the reform that led to the current order, the seventh month is July.
- Septidi was the seventh day of the decade in the French Revolutionary Calendar
- The traditional count of Basque provinces as expressed in the slogan Zazpiak Bat
- The Seven Sages of Greece: Solon, Chilon, Thales, Bias, Cleobulus, Pittacus and Periander.
- Cibola was the legendary Seven Cities of Gold the Spanish thought existed.

Also see:
lusty, mirthful, girl-stealing musical...."