* The Abencerrages – Part 17 of Washington Irving's Tales of the Alhambra

This belief made its contributions to literature in Edgar Allan Poe's " The Gold-Bug ", Washington Irving's The Devil and Tom Walker, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island and Nelson DeMille's Plum Island.

The Revolutionary War-era " American Gothic " story of the Headless Horseman, immortalized in Washington Irving's story " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " ( published in 1820 ), marked the arrival in the New World of dark, romantic story-telling.

* 1819 – Washington Irving's " Rip Van Winkle "

More recently, Washington Irving's famous 1819 story " Rip Van Winkle " tells of a man named Rip Van Winkle who takes a nap on a mountain and wakes up 20 years in the future, when he has been forgotten, his wife dead, and his daughter grown up.

The forces that impelled Dickens to create a powerful, impressive, and enduring tale were the profoundly humiliating experiences of his childhood, the plight of the poor and their children during the boom decades of the 1830s and 1840s, Washington Irving's essays on Christmas published in his Sketch Book ( 1820 ) describing the traditional old English Christmas, fairy tales and nursery stories, as well as satirical essays and religious tracts.

Washington Irving's The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, written over twenty years previously and depicting the harmonious warm-hearted English Christmas festivities of earlier times that he had experienced while staying at Aston Hall, attracted Dickens, and the two authors shared the belief that the staging of a nostalgic English Christmas might restore a social harmony and well-being lost in the modern world.

" Washington Irving's reference to " doughnuts " in 1809 in his History of New York is more commonly cited as the first written recording of the term.

* Sleepy Hollow ( radio ), a 1998 adaptation of Washington Irving's short story

Stevenson's Treasure Island was directly influenced by Irving's " Wolfert Webber ", Stevenson saying in his preface " It is my debt to Washington Irving that exercises my conscience, and justly so, for I believe plagiarism was rarely carried farther .. the whole inner spirit and a good deal of the material detail of my first chapters .. were the property of Washington Irving.

* Washington Irving's humorous essay " The Angler " comments on Walton's popularity ; the work can be found in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon available via Project Gutenberg.

The libretto is an adaptation by H. B. Farnie of Washington Irving's famous tale.

The Orkney Rangers believe this may be one source for Washington Irving's tale, because his father was an Orcadian from the island of Shapinsay and would almost certainly have known the tale.

He appears in several works of Alexandre Dumas, including The Last Cavalier: Being the Adventures of Count Sainte-hermine in the Age of Napoleon, not published until 2007 and in Washington Irving's short story " The Inn at Terracina ".

The Golden Legend may have been the source for retellings of the Seven Sleepers in Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, in a poem by Goethe, Washington Irving's " Rip van Winkle ", H. G.

* Washington Irving's collection The Sketch Book ( 1819 ) included the story " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ", which contained a figure now known as the " Headless Horseman ".

It is also frequently used as an auditory symbol of rural America, as in Washington Irving's story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, or as a plot device.

Major André's capture is mentioned in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, which takes place in and around Tarrytown.

The Life by his son Henry Roscoe ( 2 vols., London, 1906 ) contains full details of Roscoe's career, and there are references to him in the Autobiographical Sketches of De Quincey, and in Washington Irving's Sketch Book.

The name is an allusion to the locale mentioned in Washington Irving's " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " ( which also gave its name to Sleepy Hollow, New York ).

Jefferson as the old Rip Van Winkle, 1896In 1859, Jefferson made a dramatic version of Washington Irving's story of " Rip Van Winkle " on the basis of older plays, and acted it with success in

Ichabod Crane is a fictional character and the main protagonist in Washington Irving's short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, first published in 1820.

In the case of Washington Irving's Sketch Book, which contains " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " and " Rip Van Winkle " among others, the conceit is that the author of the book is not Irving, but a certain gentleman named Crayon.

Research conducted by the National Museum of American History notes that the story of Betsy Ross making the first American flag for General George Washington entered into American consciousness about the time of the 1876 centennial celebrations.

Cornet Bay offers boat launches and fishing opportunities, while Bowman Bay has an interpretive center that explains the story of the Civilian Conservation Corps throughout Washington state.

The short story " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " by Washington Irving is cited as " the first great comedy-horror story ".

In an article in The Washington Post, published after Salinger's death, and in a story for New York, Orchises Press owner Roger Lathbury described his efforts to publish the story.

After The Washington Post broke a story in January 1975, Kelley searched and found them in his outer office.

In February the following year, China's alleged role in the campaign finance controversy first gained public attention after the Washington Post published a story stating that a U. S. Department of Justice investigation had discovered evidence that agents of China sought to direct contributions from foreign sources to the DNC before the 1996 presidential campaign.

The story about Harding's body being laid in state in San Francisco City Hall before being returned to Washington appears to be false.

* September 29 – The Washington Post publishes Janet Cooke's story of Jimmy, an 8-year-old heroin addict ( later proven to be fabricated ).

A short story about a nearly destitute father and daughter's trip to Washington, D. C.

In 1988 PBS and Rabbit Ears Productions produced a multi-award-winning animated adaptation and a subsequent book depicting the Washington Irving story " The Emperor and the Nightingale ".

The Headless Horseman is a fictional character in the 1820 short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving.

* 2008: Staff of The Washington Post, " for its exceptional, multi-faceted coverage of the deadly shooting rampage at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, telling the developing story in print and online.

One story states that the term originated at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, where it was used by Ulysses S. Grant to describe the political wheelers and dealers who frequented the hotel's lobby to access Grant — who was often there to enjoy a cigar and brandy.

The story is a Depression-era political satire set in New York City, about Washington politics and political figures, such as President Franklin Roosevelt.

Still another important chapter in the story of the Revolution was written on May 5, 1783, when General Washington received Sir Guy Carleton at the DeWint House, where they discussed the terms of the peace treaty.

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York is the resting place of numerous famous figures, including Washington Irving, whose story " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " is set in the adjacent Old Dutch Burying Ground.

's Paulette Whitten recorded Bob Wilson's story ; Washington, D. C .' s museums, assuming that the prevailing style requires full stops in D. C.

Columbia Pictures originally purchased Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story, variously called The Gentleman from Montana and The Gentleman from Wyoming, as a vehicle for Ralph Bellamy, but once Frank Capra came on board as director – after Rouben Mamoulian had expressed interest – the film was to be a sequel to his Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, called Mr. Deeds Goes to Washington, with Gary Cooper reprising his role as Longfellow Deeds. Because Cooper was unavailable, Capra then " saw it immediately as a vehicle for Jimmy Stewart and Jean Arthur ," and Stewart was borrowed from MGM.

The investigation also turned up some facts which supported Dorsett's story: documents relating to the sale of Washington's estate list " plates arms U. S ." being sold to Thomas Hammond ( a son-in-law of Charles Washington and therefore a nephew by marriage to George Washington ), and also the Hammond and Dorsett families both had roots in West Virginia just a few miles apart.