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Julian calendar, an Epic card
The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 78
- Power
- 160
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 610,000
Power 160 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Julian calendar quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Julian calendar card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
For a quick ______, between 1901 and 2099 the much more common Gregorian date equals the Julian date plus 13 days.
Answer
calculation. For a quick calculation, between 1901 and 2099 the much more common Gregorian date equals the Julian date plus 13 days. From the Julian calendar article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
All in the Family. All in the Family 86 · Julian calendar 82 · Wassily Kandinsky 79 · Anton Yelchin 76 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Anton Yelchin. Anton Yelchin 1,700,000 · Julian calendar 610,000 · Joseph 460,000 · Rainer Maria Rilke 310,000 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.
- The Julian calendar is still used as a religious calendar in parts of the Eastern Orthodox Church and in parts of Oriental Orthodoxy as well as in the Berber calendar.
- For a quick calculation, between 1901 and 2099 the much more common Gregorian date equals the Julian date plus 13 days.
- The Julian calendar was proposed in 46 BC by Julius Caesar, as a reform of the earlier Roman calendar, which was largely a lunisolar one.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Julian calendar article was read about 610,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 78: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
How to get Julian calendar
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Julian calendar (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Ángel M. Felicísimo from Mérida, España, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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