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Devil's Island, a Rare card
The penal colony of Cayenne, commonly known as Devil's Island, was a French penal colony that operated for 100 years, from 1852 to 1952, and officially closed in 1953, in the Salvation Islands of French Guiana.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 56
- Power
- 125
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 210,000
Power 125 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Devil's Island quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Devil's Island card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
Opened in ____, the Devil's Island system received convicts from the Prison of St-Laurent-du-Maroni, who had been deported from all parts of the Second French Empire.
Answer
1850s. Opened in 1852, the Devil's Island system received convicts from the Prison of St-Laurent-du-Maroni, who had been deported from all parts of the Second French Empire. From the Devil's Island article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Devil's Island. Devil's Island 210,000 · Indian pied myna 8,700 · History of Central European forests 6,900 · List of crossings of the Hackensack River 2,200 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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.
- Opened in 1852, the Devil's Island system received convicts from the Prison of St-Laurent-du-Maroni, who had been deported from all parts of the Second French Empire.
- It was notorious both for the staff's harsh treatment of prisoners and the tropical climate and diseases that contributed to high mortality, with a death rate of 75 percent at its worst.
- Devil's Island was also notorious for being used for the exile of French political prisoners, with the most famous being Captain Alfred Dreyfus, who had been wrongly accused of spying for Imperial Germany during the late 19th- and early 20th-century.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Devil's Island article was read about 210,000 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 56: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Devil's Island
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Devil's Island (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Arria Belli, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
