Taylor Swift is the debut studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift (pictured), released on October 24, 2006, by Big Machine Records. Swift wrote or co-wrote all the tracks of the album, based on her experiences as a teenager; its lyrics address love, friendship, and insecurity. Produced by Nathan Chapman, it is a country record with pop and pop rock influences, using acoustic arrangements composed of guitars, banjos, and fiddles. Critics generally praised the earnest teenage feelings portrayed in Taylor Swift, and it spent more weeks on the US Billboard 200 than any other album of the 2000s decade. Among its singles, "Our Song" and "Should've Said No" peaked atop the US Hot Country Songs chart, while "Teardrops on My Guitar" became Swift's first crossover success on the pop charts. Rolling Stone featured it in their 2022 list "100 Best Debut Albums of All Time". (This article is part of a featured topic: Taylor Swift original studio albums.).

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1959:

Writer and politician Abdul Muis became the first person to be awarded the posthumous title of National Hero of Indonesia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Hero_of_Indonesia

1981:

Iranian president Mohammad-Ali Rajai and prime minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar were assassinated in a bombing committed by the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Iranian_Prime_Minister%27s_office_bombing

1984:

Discovery, the third orbiter of NASA's Space Shuttle program, lifted off on its maiden voyage from Kennedy Space Center, Florida. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Discovery

1990:

Gulf War: US General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. issued General Order No. 1 prohibiting US troops from consuming alcohol or possessing pornographic material. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Order_No._1_%28Gulf_War%29

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

subjugate: 1. To forcibly impose obedience, servitude, or submission upon (a country, a people, etc.). 2. To make (someone or something) subordinate to another person or thing; to subordinate. 3. To tame (an animal); to domesticate. 4. (figurative, obsolete, rare) To put (one's neck or shoulders) under a metaphorical yoke. 5. Forced into submission; subjugated. 6. (rare) A person forced into submission; a subject. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/subjugate

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

We should be looking to trade with the rest of the world. We should do what we do best, and they should do what they do best. With eight countries possessing nuclear weapons, including a few I would call quite unstable, I don't think it's a great idea to design a world where a few countries say, "Haha, we've won" while other countries are envious. … The main thing is that trade should not be a weapon. The more prosperous the rest of the world becomes, it won't be at our expense — the more prosperous we'll become and the safer we'll feel and your children will feel someday.   --Warren Buffet https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Warren_Buffet