Taylor Swift (born 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. She has sold more than 50 million albums and 150 million single downloads worldwide. Swift released her self-titled debut album in 2006, which spent more weeks than any other album on the Billboard 200 in the 2000s. Her second album, Fearless (2008), became the best-seller of 2009 in the US and won four Grammy Awards, with Swift becoming the youngest Album of the Year winner. With her later albums Speak Now (2010), Red (2012), 1989 (2014) and Reputation (2017), she became the first act to have four albums sell a million copies within one week in the US. The last three albums spawned the number-one singles "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", "Shake It Off", "Blank Space", "Bad Blood", and "Look What You Made Me Do". Swift's many accolades include ten Grammy Awards and appearances in Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time, Time 100, and Forbes Celebrity 100..
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1929:
Palestine riots: Arabs began attacking Jews in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, killing more than sixty people in two days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre
1939:
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, a 10-year, mutual non-aggression treaty, which also secretly divided Northern and Eastern Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pact
1989:
Singing Revolution: Approximately two million people joined hands to form a human chain spanning 675.5 kilometres (419.7 mi) across the Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian Soviet republics, to demonstrate their desire for independence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Way
2006:
Natascha Kampusch, who had been abducted at the age of ten in Vienna, escaped from her captor Wolfgang Přiklopil after more than eight years in captivity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natascha_Kampusch
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
limn: 1. (transitive, also figuratively) To draw or paint; to delineate. 2. (transitive, obsolete) To illuminate, as a manuscript; to decorate with gold or some other bright colour. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/limn
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
My Son, Freedom is best, I tell thee true, of all things to be won. Then never live within the Bond of Slavery. --William Wallace https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Wallace