This week, readers sent us comments on a FactCheck curriculum, the Massachusetts race and global cooling. In the FactCheck Mailbag, we feature some of the e-mail we receive.
Readers can send comments to editor@factcheck.org. Letters may be edited for length.
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January 20, 2010
There is no accepted method of predicting when, where and how great in magnitude an earthquake will occur.
Source: U.S. Geological Survey
January 19, 2010
The deadliest recorded earthquake in history killed 830,000 people in Shensi Province, China, in 1556.
Source: U.S. Geological Survey
January 18, 2010
On Nov. 3, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed into law a bill declaring that the third Monday of January, starting in 1986, would be recognized as the Martin Luther King, Jr. national holiday.
Source: The King Center
January 17, 2010
Haiti declared its independence from France on Jan. 1, 1804.
Source: CIA World Factbook
January 16, 2010
Thirty-eight percent of Haiti’s 9,035,536 people are aged 14 and younger.
Source: CIA World Factbook
January 15, 2010
In Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, only 20 percent of the population lives above the poverty line.
Source: CIA World Factbook
January 14, 2010
Haiti is slightly smaller than the state of Maryland.
Source: CIA World Factbook
January 13, 2010
About 25 percent of adults aged 19 to 64 have ever received a pneumococcal vaccination, and 60 percent of adults aged 65 years and older have received the vaccine.
Source: CDC
FactCheck Mailbag, Week of Jan. 5-Jan. 11
This week, readers sent us comments on small business lawsuits, climate data, requests for a TV show and high praise from the Army. In the FactCheck Mailbag, we feature some of the e-mail we receive.
Readers can send comments to editor@factcheck.org. Letters may be edited for length.