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Paul Bairoch, a Common card
Paul Bairoch was a Swiss economic historian of Belgian descent who specialized in urban history and historical demography.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 24
- Power
- 88
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,300
Power 88 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 30 % of WikiCards cards.
Paul Bairoch quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Paul Bairoch card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He ______ or co-authored more than two dozen books and 120 scholarly articles.
Answer
published. He published or co-authored more than two dozen books and 120 scholarly articles. From the Paul Bairoch article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Paul Bairoch. Paul Bairoch 64 · Basal body 57 · Kumar Iyer 53 · FE-10 49 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Basal body. Basal body 6,000 · Paul Bairoch 4,300 · Kekulene 3,300 · TET-assisted pyridine borane sequencing 2,200 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.
- He published or co-authored more than two dozen books and 120 scholarly articles.
- His most important works emphasize the agricultural preconditions necessary for industrialization and controversially claim, contrary to most scholars that colonization was not beneficial to colonial empires.
- He argued that tariffs and growth were positively correlated in the 19th century.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Paul Bairoch article was read about 4,300 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 24: each hit it takes is cut by 10 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Paul Bairoch (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : http://capitalideasonline.com/wordpress/inequality-and-globalisation-2/paul-bairoch/, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
