Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Australia wants to kill US racing pigeon that made 8,000-mile journey over disease concerns
foxnews.comAustralian officials are planning to kill a U.S. racing pigeon that managed to survive a whopping 8,000-mile journey across the Pacific.
Kevin Celli-Bird said Thursday the exhausted bird arrived in his Melbourne backyard on Dec. 26 and he discovered it had disappeared from a race in Oregon on Oct.
29. The feat first drew attention from local media before Australia’s Quarantine and Inspection Service became aware, according to Sky News. "They say if it is from America, then they’re concerned about bird diseases," Celli-Bird said. "They wanted to know if I could help them out.
I said, 'To be honest, I can’t catch it. I can get within 20 inches of it and then it moves.’" A racing pigeon sits on a rooftop Wednesday in Melbourne, Australia,.
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