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"Rip Van Winkle" (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrɪp fɑŋ ˈʋɪŋkəl]) is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their strong liquor and falls deeply asleep in the Catskill Mountains.
The Joseph Jefferson House, also known as the Rip Van Winkle House and Gardens, the Live Oak Gardens, and the Bob Acres Plantation, is a historic house built in 1870 on Jefferson Island in Iberia Parish, Louisiana. The Joseph Jefferson House was built in 1870 for Joseph Jefferson, an American stage and silent film actor.
The first installment, containing "Rip Van Winkle", was an enormous success, and the rest of the work was equally successful; it was issued in 1819–1820 in seven installments in New York and in two volumes in London ("The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" appeared in the sixth issue of the New York edition and the second volume of the London edition ...
In 1859, after playing for the first time the role of Rip Van Winkle — based on the 1819 short story by Washington Irving — Jefferson became famous for it and played it in U.S. and overseas ...
In cryptography, the Rip van Winkle cipher is a provably secure cipher with a finite key, assuming the attacker has only finite storage. The cipher requires a broadcaster (perhaps a numbers station ) publicly transmitting a series of random numbers.
Van Dien adds, "Washington Irving went around and captured some of them," including Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, which he wrote and published in 1819 and 1820, respectively ...
Joseph Jefferson made several recordings, all of material from Rip Van Winkle. [citation needed] Jefferson essentially created no new character after 1865, except for minor parts. He was known as a one-part actor. The public never wearied of his one masterpiece. Francis Wilson wrote in 1906, "He was Rip and Rip was he."
Apart from "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", both of which were immediately acknowledged as The Sketch Book's finest pieces, American and English readers alike responded most strongly to the more sentimental tales, especially "The Broken Heart", – which Byron claimed had made him weep [23] – and "The Widow and Her Son".