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.
'World's oldest' brewery dating back 5,000 years unearthed by archaeologists in Egypt
mirror.co.ukThe world’s oldest brewery has been discovered by a team of archaeologists at a site in southern Egypt. The beer factory, which is thought to be over 5,000 years old, was uncovered at North Abydos, Sohag, by a joint Egyptian-American team, the Egyptian Tourism ministry said Saturday in a statement on its Facebook page .
According to Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, the mass-production brewery in Abydos, 280miles (450 km) south of Cairo, likely dates back to the era of King Narmer, the last king of the Predynastic Period (c.
6000 - 3150 BCE). The council’s secretary general Mostafa Waziry said the brewery was made up of eight large areas which were used as “units for beer production”, adding that each area had about 40 earthenware
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