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Bradford Parkinson, a Common card
Bradford Parkinson is an American engineer and inventor, retired United States Air Force Colonel and Emeritus Professor at Stanford University.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 64
- Power
- 133
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 13,000
Power 133 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is best known as the lead architect, advocate and developer, with early contributions from Ivan Getting and Roger Easton, of the Air Force NAVSTAR program, better known as Global Positioning System.
- He was also the co-principal investigator and program manager on Gravity Probe B, which tested gravitomagnetism and was the first direct mechanical test of Einstein’s General Relativity.
- He has received numerous awards and honors for GPS and contributions to engineering and invention, including the Charles Stark Draper Prize, National Inventors Hall of Fame, and IEEE Medal of Honor, among others.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Bradford Parkinson article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 64: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Bradford Parkinson
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Bradford Parkinson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : USAF, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

