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Lobster War, an Uncommon card
The Lobster War was a dispute over spiny lobsters that occurred from 1961 to 1963 between Brazil and France.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 65
- Power
- 132
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 48,000
Power 132 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The Brazilian government refused to allow French fishing vessels to catch spiny lobsters 160 kilometres off Brazil's northeastern coast by arguing that lobsters "crawl along the continental shelf".
- The French maintained that "lobsters swim" and so they could be caught by any fishing vessel from any country.
- Although the historical incident of coercive diplomacy may have taken place long before the drafting of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the dispute ended with the signing of an agreement on 10 December 1964 that granted to 26 French ships the right to fish for a period no longer than five years if they delivered to Brazilian fishermen a certain amount of profit from their…
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Lobster War article was read about 48,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 65: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Lobster War (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Marine brésilienne, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.