Patricia Coombs<\/b> (born Los Angeles, California, 1926) writes and illustrates books for children. She writes the Dorrie the Little Witch<\/i> series.<\/p>\n
Robert Quackenbush<\/b> (born Hollywood, California, 1929; died New York, New York, May 17, 2021) wrote at least 110 books and illustrated at least 60 books. He wrote both the Miss Mallard<\/i> series and the Detective Mole<\/em> series. Children could learn more at: http:\/\/www.rquackenbush.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n Vera Rubin<\/strong> (born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1928; died Princeton, New Jersey, December 25, 2016) was an astronomer who studied galactic rotation curves. Her work led to the concept of dark matter. Children can learn more about her at: Vera Rubin<\/a>. Children can learn about dark matter and dark energy at a GREAT<\/span><\/strong> site: Dark Matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Patricia Coombs (born Los Angeles, California, 1926) writes and illustrates books for children. She writes the Dorrie the Little Witch series. Robert Quackenbush (born Hollywood, California, 1929; died New York, New York, May 17, 2021) wrote at least 110 books and illustrated at least 60 books. He wrote both the Miss Mallard series and the […]<\/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":[828,6303,827,829,830],"class_list":["post-6183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","tag-anthony-m-kennedy","tag-july-23-birthdays","tag-patricia-coombs","tag-robert-quackenbush","tag-vera-rubin","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\/6183","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=6183"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26589,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6183\/revisions\/26589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}