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Uncommon card · History
Samuel Langley, an Uncommon card
Samuel Pierpont Langley was an American aviation pioneer, astronomer and physicist who invented the bolometer.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 61
- Power
- 129
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 29,000
Power 129 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was the third secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a professor of astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh, where he was the director of the Allegheny Observatory.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Samuel Langley article was read about 29,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 61: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Samuel Langley
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Samuel Langley (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Smithsonian Institution, credited to Langley himself by their archive., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
