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Uncommon card · History
John Franklin, an Uncommon card
Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 74
- DEF
- 73
- Power
- 147
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 180,000
Power 147 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
John Franklin quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the John Franklin card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The ______ ships were abandoned ten months later, and the entire crew died from starvation, hypothermia, and scurvy.
Answer
icebound. The icebound ships were abandoned ten months later, and the entire crew died from starvation, hypothermia, and scurvy. From the John Franklin article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
1992 Formula One World Championship. 1992 Formula One World Championship 85 · Muhammad Mokaev 77 · John Franklin 74 · Antiochus IV Epiphanes 71 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- After serving in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, he led two expeditions into the Canadian Arctic and through the islands of the Arctic Archipelago, during the Coppermine expedition of 1819 and the Mackenzie River expedition of 1825, and served as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land from 1837 to 1843.
- During his third and final expedition, an attempt to traverse the Northwest Passage in 1845, Franklin's ships became icebound off King William Island in what is now Nunavut, where he died in June 1847.
- The icebound ships were abandoned ten months later, and the entire crew died from starvation, hypothermia, and scurvy.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The John Franklin article was read about 180,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 74 and blocks with 73: each hit it takes is cut by 29 %.
How to get John Franklin
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, John Franklin (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Thomas Phillips, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
