One Direction is an English-Irish pop band based in London, England. Its members are Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, and Louis Tomlinson. One Direction is a phenomenon of the entertainment field and is beloved by girls on several continents.

One Direction signed with Simon Cowell's record label Syco Records. They came to prominence after forming to compete in one of Cowell's competition shows, 'The X Factor.' While they somehow only finished third in their season of the British televised singing show in 2010, that was only the beginning for them.

One Direction came along at just the right time (much like Justin Bieber, incidentally). Social media such as Facebook was exploding, and they rode the wave to its maximum extent. Their three studio albums, Up All Night (2011), Take Me Home (2012) and Midnight Memories (2013), have broken sales records and topped charts around the world. They have cultivated their fan base online like no other act in history.

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The band's major hit singles include "What Makes You Beautiful", "Live While We're Young" and "Story of My Life". The band is commonly initialized as 1D, which all fans recognize. One Direction recently had a successful world tour and remain extremely popular. They have branched out into releasing films and continue working on new music.

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Unicorns are creatures of mythology. The unicorn is a legendary beast that has been known at least since antiquity. Its distinctive feature is a large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead, one which is very seldom found in nature (but there have been some examples).

The unicorn was known well before modern civilization developed. It was depicted in ancient seals of the Indus Valley, for instance. It also was mentioned by the ancient Greeks. The historians Ctesias, Strabo, Pliny the Younger, and Aelian mentioned the unicorn in one fashion or another, though none of them claimed to have actually encountered one. Even in the Bible, there is described an animal, the re'em, which some consider referring to the unicorn (but that is generally considered incorrect.

The unicorn is not just a Western creature. Chinese mythology refers to the qilin, which is sometimes called "the Chinese unicorn." Though a somewhat vague animation, some ancient Chinese accounts describe the beast as having a single horn as its defining feature. The Japanese also have their very own version, the kirin, which is portrayed in a similar fashion to the Western unicorn, even though it is based on the Chinese qilin which has a completely different look.

The unicorn was particularly popular during the Middle Ages. Leonardo da Vinci referred to it, and many famous tapestries of the age portray it. Even "Shakespeare refers to the unicorn in 'Timon of Athens.' However, the popularity of the unicorn began to wane soon after, though it certainly has never gone completely out of fashion.

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