Rip Van Winkle is a man who sleeps for a hundred years and wakes in a world he cannot recognize. The name "Rip Van Winkle" has gone into the language to describe people who awake and cannot recognize their surroundings. |
Death Date: November 28, 1859
Rip Van Winkle is a man who sleeps for a hundred years and wakes in a world he cannot recognize. The name "Rip Van Winkle" has gone into the language to describe people who awake and cannot recognize their surroundings.
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