Rip Van Winkle was a character in a short story by the American writer Washington Irving.
In the story,Rip lived in a little town in the Hudson Valley, in New York, in the 1770s, around the time of the American Revolution. Rip went out hunting one day, took a nap under a tree, and feel asleep. He woke up 20 years later to find himself a citizen of a brand-new country the United States of America.
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