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  2. Rip Van Winkle - Wikipedia

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    In the 1994 film Star Trek Generations, 138-year-old Admiral James T. Kirk comes back to life after being "suspended" in a Nexus for 78 years. On the BBC television show Doctor Who , the tenth episode of the ninth series (titled "Sleep No More") involves a machine called Morpheus that can condense a full night's worth of sleep into mere minutes.

  3. Rumpelstiltskin - Wikipedia

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    "Rumpelstiltskin" (/ ˌ r ʌ m p əl ˈ s t ɪ l t s k ɪ n / RUMP-əl-STILT-skin; [1] German: Rumpelstilzchen [ˌʁʊmpl̩ˈʃtiːltsçn̩] ⓘ) is a German fairy tale [2] collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales. [2]

  4. The Rip Van Winkle Caper - Wikipedia

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    The thieves, consisting of scientist/mastermind Farwell, demolitions expert De Cruz, firearms expert Brooks, and mechanical engineer Erbie, hide in a secret cave in Death Valley, where Farwell has hidden a set of suspended animation chambers for the group to sleep for approximately 100 years. After that time, he expects that they will be able ...

  5. Sleeping Beauty - Wikipedia

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    Sleeping Beauty (French: La Belle au bois dormant, or The Beauty Sleeping in the Wood [1] [a]; German: Dornröschen, or Little Briar Rose), also titled in English as The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods, is a fairy tale about a princess cursed by an evil fairy to sleep for a hundred years before being awakened by a handsome prince.

  6. Paul Galdone - Wikipedia

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    from the American poem "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: 1964 Tom, Tom the Piper's Son [16] Illustrated 1966 The History of Simple Simon [17] Illustrated 1969 Little Tuppen [18] Illustrated 1968: Henny Penny [19] Adapted and illustrated: from the "Henny Penny" fable 1968 The Horse, the Fox and the Lion [20] Adapted and ...

  7. Suspended animation in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Examples include Holger Danske and King Arthur in mountain sleep tales. In the fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty, an evil fairy places a curse on a princess, causing her to sleep for 100 years until she is awakened by a king's son. To ensure the princess does not wake up alone and frightened, the good fairy uses her wand to put everyone in the ...

  8. The Three Spinners - Wikipedia

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    The merchant sees the three women cavorting in the forest and hears them call out their names, similar to the scene in Rumpelstiltskin; he describes this to his bride in hopes of amusing her and getting her to agree to a wedding date. She is therefore able to invite her helpers and bring about the happy ending as in "The Three Spinners".

  9. Politically Correct Bedtime Stories - Wikipedia

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    Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Modern Tales for Our Life and Times is a 1994 book written by American writer James Finn Garner, in which Garner satirizes the trend toward political correctness and censorship of children's literature, with an emphasis on humour and parody. [1]