Rip Van Winkle
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"Rip Van Winkle" 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. He awakes 20 years later to a very changed world, having missed the American Revolution.
Depiction of Rip Van Winkle by John Quidor (1829). Housed at Art Institute of Chicago.
Depiction of Rip Van Winkle by Thomas Nast (c. 1875). Housed at Yale University Library.
First installment of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819) included "Rip Van Winkle"
Joseph Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle (1896)
Honi HaMe'agel
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Honi HaMe'agel was a tanna or Jewish scholar of the 1st century BCE, the scholars from whose teachings the Mishnah was derived.
Gravestone of Honi
Tomb of Honi HaMe'agel's grandsons in Hatzor HaGlilit, Galilee