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Uncommon card · Science
Historian, an Uncommon card
A historian is a scholar who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 85
- Power
- 163
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 63,000
Power 163 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Historian quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Historian card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Some historians are recognized by ______ or training and experience.
Answer
publications. Some historians are recognized by publications or training and experience. From the Historian article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Quinine. Quinine 400,000 · Loudspeaker 120,000 · Historian 63,000 · Dungeons & Dragons in popular culture 25,000 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.
- Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race, as well as the study of all history in time.
- Some historians are recognized by publications or training and experience.
- "Historian" became a professional occupation in the late nineteenth century as research universities were emerging in Germany.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Historian article was read about 63,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 85: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Historian
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Historian (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
