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William Dampier, an Uncommon card
William Dampier was an English explorer, pirate, privateer and naturalist who became the first Englishman to explore parts of what is today Australia, and the first person to circumnavigate the world three times.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 79
- Power
- 152
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 61,000
Power 152 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He has also been described as Australia's first natural historian, as well as one of the most important British explorers of the period between the 16th-century explorer Sir Francis Drake and the 18th-century explorer James Cook, he "bridged those two eras" with a mix of piratical derring-do of the former and scientific inquiry of the latter.
- Dampier's expeditions were among the first to identify and name a number of plants, animals, foods and cooking techniques for a European audience, being among the first English writers to use words such as avocado, barbecue and chopsticks.
- In describing the preparation of avocados, he was the first European to describe the making of guacamole, named the breadfruit plant, and made frequent documentation of the taste of numerous foods foreign to the European palate at the time, such as flamingo and manatee.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The William Dampier article was read about 61,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 79: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, William Dampier (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Thomas Murray, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.