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August Schleicher, a Common card
August Schleicher was a German linguist.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 35
- Power
- 101
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 8,700
Power 101 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 40 % of WikiCards cards.
August Schleicher quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the August Schleicher card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Schleicher studied the Proto-Indo-European language and devised theories concerning historical ______.
Answer
linguistics. Schleicher studied the Proto-Indo-European language and devised theories concerning historical linguistics. From the August Schleicher article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
August Schleicher. August Schleicher 66 · Alexander Burmistrov 63 · Mary Allen Wilkes 59 · John Resig 55 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Schleicher studied the Proto-Indo-European language and devised theories concerning historical linguistics.
- His great work was A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European Languages in which he attempted to reconstruct the Proto-Indo-European language.
- To show how Indo-European might have looked, he created a short tale, Schleicher's fable, to exemplify the reconstructed vocabulary and aspects of Indo-European society inferred from it.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The August Schleicher article was read about 8,700 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 35: each hit it takes is cut by 14 %.
How to get August Schleicher
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The cards just above and just below August Schleicher in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Alexander BurmistrovCommon · Society · ATK 63 DEF 38
- Jahn TeigenCommon · Arts · ATK 62 DEF 39
- Krystian MapapalangiCommon · History · ATK 57 DEF 44
- Robert StolzCommon · Arts · ATK 59 DEF 42
- Susanna MälkkiCommon · Arts · ATK 62 DEF 39
- Thomas MayhewCommon · Society · ATK 63 DEF 38
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, August Schleicher (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Friedrich Kriehuber (1834-1871), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
