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.
Horrifying injuries of Chernobyl – from severe mutations to 'body collapsing'
dailystar.co.ukChernobyl nuclear meltdown wreaked havoc and triggered panic across the world – with thousands still living with the consequences.
In 1986, one of the reactors at the power plant exploded and burned, emitting deadly radiation throughout the former Soviet Union.While the UN estimates that just 50 deaths can be attributed to the disaster, it later predicted that a further 4,000 may die from the after-effects.Thousands of people also suffered life-changing injuries after the disaster, which took place in the former Soviet Union in what is now Ukraine.Fire crews who responded to the scene were unaware of the huge amounts of radiation they were being exposed to.Within weeks of the meltdown, 29 power plant workers and firefighters had died from.
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