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Boston & Roxbury Mill Dam, a Common card
The Boston & Roxbury Mill Dam was an engineering project in Boston's Back Bay.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 51
- DEF
- 26
- Power
- 77
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 740
Power 77 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
Boston & Roxbury Mill Dam quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Boston & Roxbury Mill Dam card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Commissioned in 1814, the ______ intended to enclose the Back Bay basin and utilize flowing tidal waters for industrial production.
Answer
project. Commissioned in 1814, the project intended to enclose the Back Bay basin and utilize flowing tidal waters for industrial production. From the Boston & Roxbury Mill Dam article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Augusto Gansser-Biaggi. Augusto Gansser-Biaggi 57 · Juuso Puustinen 54 · Boston & Roxbury Mill Dam 51 · List of ambassadors of Turkey to Israel 46 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.
- Commissioned in 1814, the project intended to enclose the Back Bay basin and utilize flowing tidal waters for industrial production.
- Constructing the dam would allow water to reliably flow from the Charles River to the basin, creating an ideal environment for the era's industrial mills.
- The project additionally added a second route to the mainland that redirected traffic away from Boston's choked Orange Street causeway.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Boston & Roxbury Mill Dam article was read about 740 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 51 and blocks with 26: each hit it takes is cut by 10 %.
How to get Boston & Roxbury Mill Dam
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Boston & Roxbury Mill Dam (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Author unknown, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
