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Rip Van Winkle, short story by Washington Irving, published in The Sketch Book in 1819–20. ... Rip Van Winkle is an amiable farmer who wanders into the Catskill Mountains, where he comes upon a group of dwarfs playing ninepins. Rip accepts their offer of a drink of liquor and promptly falls asleep.
Van Winkle's neighbor who went off to war while Van Winkle was sleeping. Woman who identifies Van Winkle when he returns to the village after his sleep. The oldest resident of the village, who confirms Van Winkle's identity and cites evidence indicating Van Winkle's strange tale is true.
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1. Since the 1700's, people have used balloons filled with gas lighter than air to float above the ground.
2. Inventors have been trying since as early as the 1800s to create a heavier-than-air machine that would fly.
3. Originally the machines were not meant to carry people.
4. Wilbur and Orville Wright were the first to fly a powered airplane in sustained height.
5. At Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the flight lasted 12 seconds, and went 120 feet.
6. They succeeded, they had studies aerodynamics, the principles of the movement of air around objects.
7. From this beginning, the airplane industry was started.
8. Louis Bleriot, a Frenchman, was the first pilot to fly across the English Channel in 1909.
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