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.

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.

1984:

Discovery, the third orbiter of NASA's Space Shuttle program,

lifted off on its maiden voyage from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

1990:

Gulf War: US General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. issued General

Order No. 1 prohibiting US troops from consuming alcohol or possessing

pornographic material.

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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.

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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

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