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Stephen Mather, a Common card
Stephen Tyng Mather was an American industrialist and conservationist who was the first director of the National Park Service.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 60
- Power
- 125
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 12,000
Power 125 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Stephen Mather quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Stephen Mather card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
As president and owner of Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company he became a ______.
Answer
millionaire. As president and owner of Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company he became a millionaire. From the Stephen Mather article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
In ____, Mather was appointed to lead the NPS, the new agency created within the Department of the Interior.
Answer
1910s. In 1917, Mather was appointed to lead the NPS, the new agency created within the Department of the Interior. From the Stephen Mather article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Cleo. Cleo 71 · Christoph Eschenbach 68 · Stephen Mather 65 · Arthur Wesley Dow 61 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.
- As president and owner of Thorkildsen-Mather Borax Company he became a millionaire.
- Along with journalist Robert Sterling Yard, Mather led a publicity campaign known as the Mather Mountain Party to promote the creation of a unified federal agency to oversee National Parks administration, which was established in 1916.
- In 1917, Mather was appointed to lead the NPS, the new agency created within the Department of the Interior.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Stephen Mather article was read about 12,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 60: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Stephen Mather
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Stephen Mather (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Marian Albright Schenk, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
