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Lunch atop a Skyscraper, a Rare card
Lunch atop a Skyscraper is a black-and-white photograph taken on September 20, 1932, of eleven ironworkers sitting on a steel beam of the RCA Building, 850 feet above the ground during the construction of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, New York City.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 55
- Power
- 121
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 300,000
Power 121 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It was a staged photograph arranged as a publicity stunt, part of a campaign promoting the skyscraper.
- The photographic negative is in the Bettmann Archive.
- The image is often misattributed to Lewis Hine, but the identity of the actual photographer remains unclear.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Lunch atop a Skyscraper article was read about 300,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 55: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Lunch atop a Skyscraper
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, Lunch atop a Skyscraper (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Charles Clyde Ebbets, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
