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.
Hal O’Leary (1927–2021), taught amputee kids to ski
legacy.comHal O’Leary was the founder of the National Sports Center for the Disabled, which offers skiing and other sports for athletes with disabilities.O’Leary was working as a ski instructor for Colorado’s Winter Park Resort in 1970 when he volunteered to teach a group of children with amputations to ski.
The 23 kids were visiting from Children’s Hospital in Denver, and O’Leary was the only ski instructor willing to take them under his wing and imagine how he could help them succeed on the slopes.
O’Leary was inspired to create new equipment for skiers with disabilities, and the National Sports Center for the Disabled was born from his work with them.
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