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.
Officials set traps for giant snail the size of a fist that can cause meningitis
dailystar.co.ukAfrican snail was spotted in a man's garden – prompting officials to set traps for the potentially deadly animal.The giant African land snail destroys plants and can carry a parasite known to give people meningitis, according to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.One such beast was found by a gardener in Pasco County, Florida, recently, sparking efforts to capture the slimy character. READ MORE: Mum and daughter, 6, 'shot dead and dumped in basement after row over PS5'This is despite the species previously having been eradicated twice in Florida.
First discovered in the state in the 60s, it took officials ten years and a total of $1 million to eradicate it, according to the USDA.
The first detection was in 1969 and was eradicated in 1975. The most recent eradication of this pest was in 2021 from a detection in 2011 in Miami-Dade County.
Prior to the recent detection, the last live snail in Florida was collected in Miami-Dade County in December of 2017.The worry comes because the beast consumes at least 500 types of plants, causes structural damage to plaster and stucco structures by gnawing at them, and carries a parasitic nematode that can lead to meningitis in humans.
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