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 ghost story' found painted onto 3,500-year-old Babylonian tablet
dailystar.co.ukghost story from 3,500 years ago may have just been discovered locked away inside a vault at the British Museum.An ancient Babylonian clay tablet depicting a ghostly figure, is an "absolutely spectacular object from antiquity" says the British Museum's Middle Eastern department curator.According to Dr Irving Finkel, sketched onto the slab is part of an exorcist’s guide to getting rid of unwanted ghosts – depicted by a lonely bearded spirit being led with his hands tied by a lover into the afterlife and eternal bliss.Accompanying text on the clay outlines a ritual that would see them happily through to the underworld together.Dr Finkel said: "It’s obviously a male ghost and he’s miserable.
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