if (document.images) 
{
   img1 = new Image();
   img2 = new Image();
   img3 = new Image();
   img4 = new Image();
   img5 = new Image();
   img6 = new Image();
   img7 = new Image();
   img8 = new Image();
   
   img1.src = "../images/homeIcon.gif"
   img2.src = "../images/individIcon.gif"
   img3.src = "../images/globeIcon.gif"
   img4.src = "../images/pageShadow2.jpg"
   img5.src = "../images/grayLineLanguage.jpg"
   img6.src = "../images/pageShadow.jpg";
   img7.src = "../images/languageContentBottomShadow.jpg"
   img8.src = "../images/languageContentTop.jpg"
   
}

function bodyOnLoadSelection() {
getDate();
document.getElementById('blenddiv').className="rotateImgDivNoPic";
runSlideShow();
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("title.xml");
document.getElementById('languageTitle').innerHTML = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
document.title = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("title")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
bodyOnLoadFactList();
}
<!-- Begin
// Set slideShowSpeed (milliseconds)
var slideShowSpeed = 6000;
// Duration of crossfade (milliseconds)
var crossFadeDuration = 900;
// Specify the image files
var Pic = new Array();
// to add more images, just continue
// the pattern, adding to the array below

var picID=0;
var picNum = 1;
var maxPics = 252;

while (picNum <= maxPics)
{
	Pic[picID] = '../images/rotateImg' + picNum + '.jpg';
	picID++;
	picNum++;
}


// do not edit anything below this line
var t;
var j = 0;
var p = Pic.length;

function runSlideShow() {
	
 var choose_one= get_random(maxPics);  
  choose_one--;
  
blendimage('blenddiv','blendimage', Pic[choose_one],crossFadeDuration);
j = j + 1;
if (j > (p - 1)) j = 0;
t = setTimeout('runSlideShow()', slideShowSpeed);
}
//  End -->

function bodyOnLoadFactList() {
xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("factListMenu.xml");
var x=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("option");
var dropDownMenu;				   
dropDownMenu = 	"<form>" + 	"<select class=\"selectBranchDropDown\" name=\"jumpMenu\" id=\"jumpMenu\" onchange=\"MM_jumpMenu('top',this,1)\">";
dropDownMenu += "<option value=\"1\">Choose a topic</option>";
for (i=0;i<x.length;i++)
{
	dropDownMenu += "<option value=\"" + xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("location")[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue + "\">";
	dropDownMenu += xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("option")[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
	dropDownMenu += "</option>";
}

dropDownMenu += "</select></form>";

document.getElementById('factListDropDown').innerHTML = dropDownMenu;

var i = 0;
var languageListTable = "<table class=\"languageListTable\">";
languageListTable +="<tr>";
languageListTable += "<th>";

while (i < x.length)
{
	languageListTable += "<a href=\"" + xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("location")[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue + "\" target=\"_top\">";
	languageListTable += "<div id=\"" + i + "\" class=\"languageListTableDiv\" onmouseover=\"mouseOver(" + i +")\" onmouseout=\"mouseOut(" + i +")\">";
	languageListTable += xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("option")[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
	languageListTable += "</div></a><br />";	
	i++;
}
languageListTable += "</th>";
languageListTable +="</tr>";
languageListTable += "</table>";


document.getElementById('languageFactComplete').innerHTML = languageListTable;

var featuredTopic = get_random(x.length); 
featuredTopic--;

var location = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("location")[featuredTopic].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
var title = "<a class=\"sectionTitleFront\" href=\"" + location +"\" target=\"_top\">";
title += xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("option")[featuredTopic].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
title += "</a>";
var featuredPicture = "<img src=\"" + location;
featuredPicture += "/images/mainImgFeatured.jpg\" height=\"176\" width=\"232\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" class=\"featuredPictureFact\" alt=\"featured topic\">";
var more = "...<a href=\"" + location +"\" target=\"_top\">more</a>";
more += "<a href=\"" + location +"\" target=\"_top\">";
more += "<img src=\"../images/more.gif\" alt=\"more\" align=\"top\" class=\"more\" hspace=\"5\"/></a>";
description = loadXMLDoc(location +"/title.xml");

document.getElementById('featuredFactTitle').innerHTML = "Featured Topic - " + title;
document.getElementById('featuredDescription').innerHTML = featuredPicture + description.getElementsByTagName("description")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue + more;


}