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Paul Pelliot, a Common card
Paul Eugène Pelliot was a French sinologist and Orientalist best known for his explorations of Central Asia and the Silk Road regions, and for his acquisition of many important Tibetan Empire-era manuscripts and Chinese texts at the Sachu printing center storage caves, known as the Dunhuang manuscripts.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 53
- Power
- 117
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 10,000
Power 117 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Paul Pelliot quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Paul Pelliot card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He was a student of the Indologist Sylvain Lévi and the ______ Édouard Chavannes.
Answer
archaeologist. He was a student of the Indologist Sylvain Lévi and the archaeologist Édouard Chavannes. From the Paul Pelliot article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Johan Rudolph Thorbecke. Johan Rudolph Thorbecke 73 · Japanese cruiser Nagara 68 · Paul Pelliot 64 · 43 Commando Fleet Protection Group 60 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- A hyperpolyglot, he spoke 13 Oriental languages, including among others Mandarin and Cantonese, Turkish, Russian, Mongolian, Hebrew, Uzbek, Pashto, and Tagalog, as well as Sanskrit, and even rarer languages such as Uyghur, and the extinct languages Sogdian and Tocharian.
- He was a student of the Indologist Sylvain Lévi and the archaeologist Édouard Chavannes.
- Pelliot was a member of the French School of the Far East from 1899 to 1911, where he developed the school's sinology branch.
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 Pelliot article was read about 10,000 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 53: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Paul Pelliot (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Alice Pelliot, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
