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Biography of the day: Dolley Madison; Dolley Madison (20 May 1768-12 July 1849), first lady, was born near Guilford, North Carolina, the daughter of John Payne, an unsuccessful merchant and planter, and Mary Coles. When Dolley was one year old the Paynes left North Carolina and moved back to rural eastern Virginia, settling with the Coles family. There she grew up in comfort; throughout her life she defined herself as a Virginian. Her family were Quakers, and in 1783 her father manumitted his slaves and moved his wife and eight children to Philadelphia. There he opened a starch business, which failed in 1789. His wife then supported the family by converting her home into a boardinghouse. Dolley Payne came of age during difficult years; she saw her father slide into debt, expelled from his Quaker congregation, and die a broken man, leaving her mother and her sisters in severely reduced circumstances.

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Did you know: a) that in response to Pakistan banning Facebook after the Everybody Draw Mohammed Day controversy MillatFacebook was founded to cater primarily to Muslims? b) that a pioneer of the pre-war Czechoslovak swing music Jir? Traxler lives in Canada? c) that the cloth fibers in the casing of most bicycle tires are oriented diagonally, forming a bias ply? d) that the 1994 Nepalese legislative election saw the first democratically elected communist government in Asia come to power?

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