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Uncommon card · Science
J. B. Bury, an Uncommon card
John Bagnell Bury was an Anglo-Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 45
- Power
- 110
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 16,000
Power 110 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
J. B. Bury quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the J. B. Bury card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the ______ to the 1889 edition of his Later Roman Empire.
Answer
preface. He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the 1889 edition of his Later Roman Empire. From the J. B. Bury article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
André Gorz. André Gorz 68 · J. B. Bury 65 · Ilya Varlamov 62 · Floor 58 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.
- He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the 1889 edition of his Later Roman Empire.
- He was Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin, before being Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow of King's College, Cambridge from 1902 until his death.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The J. B. Bury article was read about 16,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 45: each hit it takes is cut by 18 %.
How to get J. B. Bury
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, J. B. Bury (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
