"which is indistinguishable from death. In American fiction, the first story to deal with suspended animation is the tale of Rip Van Winkle, a short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819 as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist. In the story, a British subject in the American colonies wanders into the Catskill Mountains in the years before the American Revolutionary War, and finds a group of fairies, whose moonshine he drinks. He then falls asleep for 20 years, and returns to his village in what is now the United States, finding his home town"
"farming. The Cross Timbers is one of the least disturbed natural places on Earth, with some of the ancient post oak forest appearing just as it did 6,000 years ago. Washington Irving, the famous American author best known for ""Rip Van Winkle"" and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"", visited Indian Territory in the autumn of 1832. Irving's journey began and ended in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma. He probably passed somewhere south of Pink on or about November 1, 1832 on the return trip to Fort Gibson. His travels were chronicled in ""A Tour of the Prairies"" in which he described the"
"The Rip Van Winkle Caper ""The Rip Van Winkle Caper"" is episode 60 of the American television anthology series ""The Twilight Zone"". It originally aired on April 21, 1961 on CBS. To escape the law after stealing $1 million worth of gold bricks (equal to $ million today) from a train on its way from Fort Knox to Los Angeles, a band of four thieves, led by scientist-mastermind Farwell, hide in a secret cave in Death Valley, California. Farwell explains to his three assistants that he has designed suspended animation chambers in which they will sleep for approximately 100 years,"
"Rip Van Winkle (1910 film) Rip Van Winkle is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company. The film is an adaptation of Washington Irving's story of ""Rip Van Winkle"" with some differences in the plot. The film focuses on the title character whose idle life is made difficult by his cantankerous wife. Winkle heads into the mountains and encounters spirits of Henry Hudson's men. Upon partaking of their alcohol, Winkle falls into a slumber for twenty years. He returns home and has difficulty proving his identity and must save his property from an unlawful accusation by"
"Rip Van Winkle (1921 film) Rip Van Winkle is a 1921 American silent fantasy film directed by Edward Ludwig and starring Thomas Jefferson and Milla Davenport in oft-filmed story made famous in the 19th century by Thomas Jefferson's father, Joseph Jefferson. T. Jefferson had starred in a 1914 feature-length version of the story which was re-released in 1921 just as this film was premiering. However, they should not be confused as the same film, they are two different films starring the same actor. Rip Van Winkle is an adventurer who comes across a group of strange individuals while roaming the"
"Sunnyside (Tarrytown, New York) Sunnyside (1835) is a historic house on 10 acres (4 ha) along the Hudson River, in Tarrytown, New York. It was the home of the American author Washington Irving, best known for his short stories, such as ""Rip Van Winkle"" (1819) and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (1820). This cottage-like estate, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962, reflects Dutch Colonial Revival, Scottish Gothic, and Tudor Revival influences, with its wisteria-covered entrance and jagged crow-stepped gable. In some sense, Sunnyside began almost 200 years before Irving with Wolfert Acker (sometimes spelled Wolfert Eckert), a Dutch-American inhabitant"
"""Seven Sleepers"" (D 1960.1, also known as the ""Rip Van Winkle"" motif), whose type tale is the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (AT tale type 766). King in the mountain stories involve legendary heroes, often accompanied by armed retainers, sleeping in remote dwellings, including caves on high mountaintops, remote islands, or supernatural worlds. The hero is frequently a historical figure of some military consequence in the history of the nation where the mountain is located. The stories gathered by the Brothers Grimm concerning Frederick Barbarossa and Charlemagne are typical of the stories told, and have been influential on many variants and"
"stories. Irving made several other trips up the Hudson as a teenager, including an extended visit to Johnstown, New York, where he passed through the Catskill Mountains region, the setting for ""Rip Van Winkle"". ""[O]f all the scenery of the Hudson"", Irving wrote later, ""the Kaatskill Mountains had the most witching effect on my boyish imagination"". The 19-year-old Irving began writing letters to the New York ""Morning Chronicle"" in 1802, submitting commentaries on the city's social and theater scene under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. The name, which purposely evoked the writer's Federalist leanings, was the first of many pseudonyms Irving"
"of the house stands at Liberty Square at The Walt Disney World Resort's Magic Kingdom; the building serves as a quick service restaurant. Notes Bibliography Further reading Sunnyside (Tarrytown, New York) Sunnyside (1835) is a historic house on 10 acres (4 ha) along the Hudson River, in Tarrytown, New York. It was the home of the American author Washington Irving, best known for his short stories, such as ""Rip Van Winkle"" (1819) and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (1820). This cottage-like estate, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962, reflects Dutch Colonial Revival, Scottish Gothic, and Tudor Revival influences, with"
"to many times since his childhood, and many of his paintings depict the Clove and life in it according to a video he filmed for his agent, Richard Michelson of R.Michelson Gallery in Northampton, MA. Numerous mountain houses and hotels were constructed, including the Laurel House, the Catskill Mountain House, the Haines Falls House and others, and trails and walkways were constructed to the many overlooks and waterfalls in the clove. Most notable was the construction of the Rip Van Winkle Trail, now Route 23A, which wound its way up the clove from Palenville to the hamlet of Haines Falls."
"The futuristic car carrying the couple who find the dying Farwell is a leftover prop, somewhat modified, from MGM's 1956 film ""Forbidden Planet"". The Rip Van Winkle Caper ""The Rip Van Winkle Caper"" is episode 60 of the American television anthology series ""The Twilight Zone"". It originally aired on April 21, 1961 on CBS. To escape the law after stealing $1 million worth of gold bricks (equal to $ million today) from a train on its way from Fort Knox to Los Angeles, a band of four thieves, led by scientist-mastermind Farwell, hide in a secret cave in Death Valley,"
"stream. But all the Tartar camp along the stream Was hush'd, and still the men were plunged in sleep."" In Walter de la Mare's poem ""If I were lord of Tartary"", Tartary is an imaginary land full of happiness. In Washington Irving's short story ""Rip Van Winkle"", the title character would ""sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance"". Tartary Tartary (Latin: ""Tartaria"") or Great Tartary (Latin: ""Tartaria Magna"") was a historical region in northern and central Asia stretching eastwards from the Caspian Sea and from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific"
"first began as the Rip Van Winkle brand with commuter service between New York City and the Hudson Valley. During the 1930s, following a series of early successes in the then newly-emerging bus industry, service was first extended from its original Hudson Valley and Metro New York home into the Adirondacks. Over time, Trailways of New York's holdings grew to include the Dixie Bus Center in New York City, the Pine Hill-Kingston Bus Corporation, and other properties. Expansion came yet again in the 1990s, marking the companies' largest growth since the first half of the 20th century. During this time"
"In 1894, a flood carried away the bridge at the north fork of the river at Winthrop. Colonel Tom Hart rebuilt the bridge in 1895 at Slate Creek. The industry of Winthrop at this time consists of a well-equipped saw mill, several important dairies, raising cattle, and supplying the local mines with goods. Owen Wister, Waring's Harvard roommate, wrote ""The Virginian"", America's first western novel, after honeymooning in Winthrop. By 1915, most of the mines, except for a few in the Slate Creek area, had shut down. In 1972, when State Highway 20 was nearing completion over the North Cascades,"
"said that ""the famous story is most effectively explained in the picture production."" Rip Van Winkle (1912 film) Rip Van Winkle is a 1912 Australian feature-length film directed by W. J. Lincoln about Rip Van Winkle. It was arguably Australia's first fantasy film. It is considered a lost film. The film was made in the wake of a successful Australian season of Joseph Jefferson and Dion Boucicault's theatre adaptation of Washington Irving's story. One reviewer said that star Arthur Styan ""has figured in several of the previous productions of the Amalgamated Pictures Ltd., and who makes quite a success of"
"Rip Van Winkle (1912 film) Rip Van Winkle is a 1912 Australian feature-length film directed by W. J. Lincoln about Rip Van Winkle. It was arguably Australia's first fantasy film. It is considered a lost film. The film was made in the wake of a successful Australian season of Joseph Jefferson and Dion Boucicault's theatre adaptation of Washington Irving's story. One reviewer said that star Arthur Styan ""has figured in several of the previous productions of the Amalgamated Pictures Ltd., and who makes quite a success of this."" The film appears not to have been widely released. The ""Bendigo Advertiser"""
"that the city and the whole Empire had become Christian. This Christian story is recounted by Islam and appears in a famous Sura of the Quran, Sura Al-Kahf. The version recalls a group of young monotheists escaping from persecution within a cave and emerging hundreds of years later. The story of ""Rip Van Winkle"" itself is widely thought to have been based on Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal's German folktale ""Peter Klaus"", which is a shorter story set in a German village. It tells of a goatherd named Peter Klaus who goes looking for a lost goat. He finds some men"
"1870) is now listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is operated via private ownership but is open to the public. Surrounding the home is the Rip van Winkle Gardens, 20 acres of gardens which was rebuilt in the 1950s through the 1980s and contains a 550 year old oak tree that Grover Cleveland once slept under. Jefferson's son Thomas L. Jefferson(1856-1932) was a noted actor occasionally picking up the Rip Van Wrinkle character and playing it in silent feature films. Joseph Jefferson Joseph Jefferson, commonly known as Joe Jefferson (February 20, 1829 – April 23, 1905), was"
"Ranka (legend) Lanke or Lankeshan (爛柯(山), Lànkē(shan), Lan-k'o (Shan); ""(The Mountain of) the Rotten Axe Handle"" in English), is a Chinese legend which has been compared to that of Rip Van Winkle, although it predates it by at least 1000 years. The exact date of origin of the legend is unknown, but it has literary antecedents from the 5th century AD, and the ""rotten axe handle"" plot element was certainly present by an early 6th-century version. One plot element of the legend features two immortals playing a board game, interpreted in later times as Go, so that ""Lanke"" (or ""Ranka"""
"out of sight for 70 years. When he awakens, he finds a fully mature tree and learns he has a grandson. When nobody believes that he is Honi, he prays to God, and God takes him from this world. The story also bears some similarities to stories from east Asia, including the third century AD Chinese tale of ""Ranka"", as retold by Lionel Giles in ""A Gallery of Chinese Immortals"", and the eighth-century Japanese tale ""Urashima Tarō"". The Hindu story of Muchukunda from the ""Bhagavatam"" also displays many similarities to the story of ""Rip Van Winkle"". The story has been"
"Pinnacle Peak (King County, Washington) Pinnacle Peak, also known as Mount Peak, is a 1,801 ft forest-covered summit located in King County of Washington state. It is part of the Cascade Range and is set at the western edge of the range, immediately south of Enumclaw, Washington and 25 miles northwest of Mount Rainier. There is also another summit named Pinnacle Peak in the Tatoosh Range to the south of Mount Rainier. First called ""Mount Pete"" for Pete Chorak, an early Enumclaw settler, ""Pete"" became misheard as ""Peak"", and the name ""Mount Peak"" received some followers. A former fire lookout"
"World War II. The Nightingale Mountains are named for Alanson W. Nightingill who was Captain of Company C during the 1860 Paiute War and later the first state controller of Nevada. Nightingale Mountains The Nightingale Mountains are a north–south trending range located along the western border of Pershing County and extending into the northeastern corner of Washoe County. The range has a length of and a width of about . The highest peak has an elevation of which is above the elevation of the dry Winnemucca Lake bed at about . The site of Nightingale and its large tungsten mine"
"on the mountain ridge. Sleepy Creek Mountain Sleepy Creek Mountain is a mountain ridge in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians on the border between Morgan and Berkeley counties in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. The long-distance Tuscarora Trail traverses the southern ridge and northern bench of the mountain. Together with Third Hill Mountain to the east, the two mountains form a blind valley that contains Sleepy Creek Lake and the Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area. Sleepy Creek and Third Hill Mountains are distinctive for their height in the relatively level terrain of the far Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. The southern"
"to be""<br> ""in the place where the axe shaft""<br> ""moldered away into dust. "" Later generations interpreted the game that the immortals were playing in the legend as ""Go"". As a result, ""Lanke"", or ""Ranka"" as pronounced in Japanese, became a literary name for ""Go"". Ranka (legend) Lanke or Lankeshan (爛柯(山), Lànkē(shan), Lan-k'o (Shan); ""(The Mountain of) the Rotten Axe Handle"" in English), is a Chinese legend which has been compared to that of Rip Van Winkle, although it predates it by at least 1000 years. The exact date of origin of the legend is unknown, but it has literary"
"of the range lies in Wyoming and is known as the Sierra Madre Range. Steamboat Springs, a popular ski resort community, sits on the southwestern flank of the range, at the base of Mount Werner. Much of the range is located within the Routt National Forest, with the summit of the ridge located within the Mount Zirkel Wilderness, named for Mount Zirkel, elevation . The range is prominently visible from both sides and forms a picturesque skyline from much of North Park. It is traversed at its southern end by Rabbit Ears Pass which carries US 40. It is also"
"Rainbow Lodge Rainbow Lodge was a small railway resort and was the first commercial fishing and weekend retreat cabin on Alta Lake, which is now part of the Resort Municipality of Whistler, British Columbia, and stood from 1914 to 1977. The lodge was a log cabin with peaked roof on the northwest verge of the lake by the railway line. Railways in North America were keen to capitalize on tourist traffic, hence the Canadian Pacific Railway created Banff National Park in the mountains, and Mont-Tremblant in Quebec; Canadian National built Jasper Park Lodge; UPRR built Sun Valley, Idaho; D &"
"of the Alleghenies was once visible 18 miles to the East. The Wigwam is located in the wilds of north central Pennsylvania and once had an electric beacon for navigation of New York to San Francisco Air Mail flyers. The Wigwam was once considered for development as a Pennsylvania State Park. The Wigwam was a well-spring of images and narratives of Oglala Lakota Wild Westers during the early 20th century. The Wigwam was a retreat for Progressive Era politicians, businessmen, journalists and adventurers; the Eastern home of Oglala Lakota """"Oskate Wicasa""""; Chief Flying Hawk's second home for 30 years and"
"in 1809, where he wrote the satire, 'A History of New York'. Later, he wrote the short stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow which take place regionally. The Kinderhook school district is named ""Ichabod Crane"". for the Irving character, Ichabod Crane, which was based on the original Kinderhook schoolmaster named Jesse Merwin. Irving and Merwin became friends in Kinderhook, where they boarded together at the Van Ness home, and the two friends continued a pen-pal correspondence for thirty years. The Columbia County Historical Society (New York) owns the original Kinderhook Schoolhouse named after the Irving character"
"MV Rip Van Winkle M/V ""Rip Van Winkle"" is a Hudson River tour boat based in Kingston, New York. She was built for use in the oil industry in 1980, but has served as a passenger vessel in New York State, and as a ferry for the US Navy. The boat leaves Kingston's Rondout Creek, heads south down to Hyde Park, New York, and then turns north and returns to Kingston. The total time is 2 hours and the trip is narrated. Sightseeing tours have also included ""three-hour narrated tours to the Vanderbilt estate, in Hyde Park."" ""Rip Van Winkle"""
"Nightingale Mountains The Nightingale Mountains are a north–south trending range located along the western border of Pershing County and extending into the northeastern corner of Washoe County. The range has a length of and a width of about . The highest peak has an elevation of which is above the elevation of the dry Winnemucca Lake bed at about . The site of Nightingale and its large tungsten mine (abandoned in the 1950s) are at the southern end of the east slope. The area also has deposits of arsenic and antimony ore which were mined during World War I and"
"paranormal activity. Wolf Creek Inn State Heritage Site Wolf Creek Inn State Heritage Site is a state park in the U.S. state of Oregon, administered by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. The Wolf Creek Inn was built along the Applegate Trail in 1883 for Henry Smith, a local entrepreneur. It is the oldest continuously operating inn in the Pacific Northwest, and is the site where author Jack London completed his novel ""Valley of the Moon"". The inn also housed actors from the early days of Hollywood when they wanted to escape from the film studios. Celebrities Clark Gable, Carole"
"Rip's Dream Rip's Dream ( ) is a 1905 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. ""Rip's Dream"" is based on two sources: the original ""Rip Van Winkle"" story by Washington Irving, and the 1882 operetta version of ""Rip Van Winkle"" (with music by Robert Planquette and libretto by Henri Meilhac, Philippe Gille, and Henry Brougham Farnie). Two elements, the mysterious snake and the village idiot, are Méliès's own creations. Méliès himself plays Rip. His son André appears as a village child carrying a large lantern. (Rip's friends' lanterns are in fact Bastille Day celebratory lanterns with the initials RF,"
"Colonel Bob Wilderness Colonel Bob Wilderness is a protected area located in the southwest corner of Olympic National Forest in the state of Washington. It is named after 19th-century orator Robert Green Ingersoll. Lake Quinault lies about 15 miles to the west. Elevations in the wilderness vary from 300 to 4,509 feet above sea level. The highest elevation is an unnamed peak; the second-highest elevation is Colonel Bob Mountain at 4,492 feet. The wilderness is a temperate rain forest with annual rainfall greater than . In 1984, the U.S. Congress established five wilderness areas within the Olympic National Forest: The"