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day = new Date()
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if (dy ==1)
document.write("James Madison stood only 5 feet, four inches - the shortest American president.")
if (dy ==2)
document.write("James Madison was the lightest American president - 100 pounds.")
if (dy ==3)
document.write("The White House was painted white to cover scorch marks left by its burning in 1814 by British troops.")
if (dy ==4)
document.write("Andrew Jackson was the only President who participated in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.")
if (dy ==5)
document.write("Andrew Jackson was a prisoner of war in the Revolutionary War.")
if (dy ==6)
document.write("George Washington was elected president without opposition for both of his terms.")
if (dy ==7)
document.write("On July 4, 1826, the US was 50 years old, and former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died that day.")
if (dy ==8)
document.write("George Washington was posthumously promoted to the rank of six-star general by President Jimmy Carter, so that he would rank first among all generals of the Army, past or present.")
if (dy ==9)
document.write("George Washington probably did not cut down a cherry tree; it was probably a myth fabricated by Parson Mason Loch Weems, an itinerant book peddler.")
if (dy ==10)
document.write("George Washington lost his original teeth but his replacements were either human or animal teeth, ivory or lead...probably not wooden.")
if (dy ==11)
document.write("Thomas Jefferson was the first president to use the handshake as a means of greeting foreign dignitaries and other guests.")
if (dy ==12)
document.write("Thomas Jefferson invented a letter-copying machine, a pedometer, a swivel chair, a machine to make fiber from hemp, the dumbwaiter, the calendar clock and the Lazy Susan.")
if (dy ==13)
document.write("Thomas Jefferson was a violinist, and one of his major attractions to his wife martha was that she could play the harpsichord.")
if (dy ==14)
document.write("Explorers Lewis and Clark brought President Jefferson bears from their expedition, which were displayed in cages on the White House lawn.")
if (dy ==15)
document.write("In 1770, John Adams defended the British soldiers accused of murder in the Boston Massacre, despite a great public indignation against the soldiers.")
if (dy ==16)
document.write("While traveling during the Revolution, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin followed the custom of the day and shared a bed.  An often-told anecdote was that the two stubborn men argued deep into the night over whether the window should stay open or closed.")
if (dy ==17)
document.write("John Adams was the great-great-grandson of John and Priscilla Alden, Puritan pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620.")
if (dy ==18)
document.write("John Adams was the first US president to establish and review the U.S. Marine Band, the country's oldest professional musical organization.")
if (dy ==19)
document.write("John Adams lived longer than any president - 90 years and 247 days.")
if (dy ==20)
document.write("James Madison wasn't re-elected to the state legislature by his Orange County VA constituents because he didn't keep with tradition and refused to indulge the electorate by providing free whiskey in exchange for votes.")
if (dy ==21)
document.write("James and Elizabeth Monroe decorated the White House with furniture and silverware bought at an auction - previously owned by Marie Antoinette, former queen of France who was executed by guillotine for reason in 1793.")
if (dy ==22)
document.write("In the 1820 election, James Monroe won all but one electoral votes - one New Hampshire elector wanted to ensure that George Washington kept the distinction of being the only unanimously elected president of the United States.")
if (dy ==23)
document.write("James Monroe helped get Thomas Paine released from a French prison in 1794.")
if (dy ==24)
document.write("James Madison has towns and cities named after him in 27 states - more than George Washington.")
if (dy ==25)
document.write("George Washington wanted a monument to an unknown soldier of the American Revolution built on the land that is now the site of the Washington Monument in Washington DC.")
if (dy ==26)
document.write("During the debates at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Benjamin Franklin suggested that only the elite should serve as president of the United States and that they could do so without compensation.")
if (dy ==27)
document.write("George Washington owned three dogs - Drunkard, Tipler and Tipsy.")
if (dy ==28)
document.write("The first Presidential mansion was located at 1 Cherry Street in New York City.")
if (dy ==29)
document.write("The Jefferson and Madison Rivers join the Gallatin River in Montana to form the Missouri River.  Albert Gallatin was Jefferson's Secretary of the Treasury when the Louisiana Purchase was made, within which was the Missouri and Montana Territories.") 
if (dy ==30)
document.write("In a bid to pay back $107,000 in debts, Thomas Jefferson set up a lottery with his house as the prize in 1826.  There were few takers, however, and the lottery was abandoned shortly before Jefferson's death later that year.")
if (dy ==31)
document.write("George Washington's shoe size was thirteen.")



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