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Mary Jackson, a Rare card
Mary Jackson was an American aerospace engineer and mathematician at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 67
- Power
- 134
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 210,000
Power 134 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Mary Jackson quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Mary Jackson card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
She started as a computer at the ______ West Area Computing division in 1951.
Answer
segregated. She started as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing division in 1951. From the Mary Jackson article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Mary Jackson was an American aerospace engineer and mathematician at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which in ____ was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Answer
1950s. Mary Jackson was an American aerospace engineer and mathematician at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which in 1958 was succeeded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. From the Mary Jackson article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Cosmology. Cosmology 77 · September 72 · Mary Jackson 67 · Cyan 64 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.
- She worked at Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, for most of her career.
- She started as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing division in 1951.
- In 1958, after taking engineering classes, she became NASA's first black female engineer.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Mary Jackson article was read about 210,000 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 67: each hit it takes is cut by 27 %.
How to get Mary Jackson
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Mary Jackson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA Langley Research Center, Bob Nye, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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