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Rare card · History
Vannevar Bush, a Rare card
Vannevar Bush was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 83
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 179
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 200,000
Power 179 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He emphasized the importance of scientific research to national security and economic well-being, and was chiefly responsible for the movement that led to the creation of the National Science Foundation.
- Bush joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1919, and founded the company that became Raytheon in 1922.
- Bush became vice president of MIT and dean of the MIT School of Engineering in 1932, and president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in 1938.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Vannevar Bush article was read about 200,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 83 and blocks with 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Vannevar Bush
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Vannevar Bush (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Harris & Ewing, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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