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How Many Grammys Does Taylor Swift Have? Awards Rundown Hollywood Life

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Taylor Swift has won multiple Grammy Awards. As of 2023, she’s been nominated for 46 Grammy Awards in her career. She heads into the 65th Grammys with four nominations. With an illustrious career that has spanned over 15 years, Taylor Swift has racked up many awards. That includes more than ten Grammys, including Album of the Year, which she’s won a mind-boggling three times (putting her in a small club with Stevie Wonder and Frank Sinatra. Read More...

Just how did America get to be named after Amerigo Vespucci, who was fairly obscure? I understand th

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YESTERYEARJust how did America get to be named after Amerigo Vespucci, who was fairly obscure? I understand that it may have been a blunder by an early map-maker. Geoffrey C. Bobker, London There's no conclusive evidence, just several contending (and contentious) theories, but it seems unlikely that the two continents are named after Vespucci (after all, it would be Vespucia, or Ameriga, wouldn't it?) The most convincing theory I've heard (on the purely subjective grounds that I used to live in Bristol) is that the land mass was named by John Cabot after Dafydd ap Meric (anglicised to David Merrick), who has been variously described as his mapmaker, or his financial backer. Read More...