{"id":2885,"date":"2026-02-26T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:53:19","slug":"birthdays-118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2885","title":{"rendered":"Birthdays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Buffalo Bill Cody<\/strong> (born William Frederic Cody in Scott County, Iowa, 1846; died Denver, Colorado, January 10, 1917) was a frontiersman and showman. Children can read more about him at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/aa\/cody\/aa_cody_subj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buffalo Bill Cody<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Victor Hugo<\/strong> (born Besancon, France, 1802; died Paris, France, May 22, 1885) was an author. One of his best known works is <em>Les Miserables<\/em>. Students can read many of his works at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project\u00a0 Gutenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sharon Bell Mathis<\/strong> (born Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1937) writes books for children. Her book <em>Ray Charles<\/em> received the 1974 Coretta Scott King Award. Her book <em>The Hundred Penny Box<\/em> received a 1976 Newbery Honor Award. Children can learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thebrownbookshelf.com\/2010\/02\/13\/sharon-bell-mathis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sharon Bell Mathis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colby Rodowsky<\/strong> (born Baltimore, Maryland, 1932; died Silver Spring, Maryland, October 5, 2020) wrote at least seventeen books for children. Her books include <em>Julie\u2019s Daughter<\/em> and <em>Fitchett\u2019s Folly<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Judith Saint George<\/strong> (born Westfield, New Jersey, 1939; died Bloomfield, Connecticut, June 10, 2015) wrote over 40 books for children. Her books include <em>So You Want to Be President?<\/em> (which earned illustrator David Small the 2001 Caldecott Medal) and <em>The Duel<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Levi Strauss<\/strong> (born Buttenheim, Bavaria, Germany, 1829; died San Francisco, California, September 26, 1902) invented tough, durable pants for California gold miners. These pants are now known as jeans. Idea: Children could compare and contrast denim with other fabrics. They could see how jeans are made at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kfvaCQwRfiI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo Bill Cody (born William Frederic Cody in Scott County, Iowa, 1846; died Denver, Colorado, January 10, 1917) was a frontiersman and showman. Children can read more about him at: Buffalo Bill Cody. Victor Hugo (born Besancon, France, 1802; died Paris, France, May 22, 1885) was an author. One of his best known works is <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2885' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4324,4327,6161,4328,2106,4326,4325],"class_list":["post-2885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-buffalo-bill-cody","tag-colby-rodowsky","tag-february-26-birthdays","tag-judith-saint-george","tag-levi-strauss","tag-sharon-bell-mathis","tag-victor-hugo","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29169,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions\/29169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}