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Super Special Rare cards feature exceptionally prominent Wikipedia topics.

117 cards across 12 series

George R. R. Martin
George R. R. Martin Architects of Worlds -- 368,824 views
American author (b. 1948) of "A Song of Ice and Fire," adapted as HBO's "Game of...
Marie Curie
Marie Curie Trailblazers -- 283,122 views
Polish-French physicist (1867-1934). Discovered polonium & radium; coined "radio...
Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa Trailblazers -- 177,588 views
Albanian-Indian nun (1910-1997) born in Skopje. She founded the Missionaries of ...
George Orwell
George Orwell Architects of Worlds -- 162,353 views
English novelist (1903-1950) of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and "Animal Farm." Coined...
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe Architects of Worlds -- 156,972 views
American writer (1809-1849) born in Boston. Known for macabre tales and poetry, ...
Great Pyramid of Giza
Great Pyramid of Giza Lost Empires -- 124,417 views
Khufu's tomb, built c. 2600 BC, is the largest Egyptian pyramid. Part of the Giz...
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Lost Empires -- 114,542 views
List of antiquity's most impressive structures, formalized in 1572. Included are...
List of Roman emperors
List of Roman emperors Lost Empires -- 107,123 views
Roman emperors ruled from 27 BC onward, starting with Augustus. He used "princep...
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison Trailblazers -- 106,544 views
American novelist (1931-2019) born Chloe Wofford in Ohio. Howard and Cornell edu...
Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi Trailblazers -- 99,318 views
Born 1945 in British Burma, this Nobel laureate led Myanmar's NLD party. Daughte...
Odysseus
Odysseus Myths & Legends -- 90,970 views
King of Ithaca, Odysseus was a Greek hero famed for cunning. Son of Laertes, he ...
Dionysus
Dionysus Myths & Legends -- 88,496 views
Greek god of wine, theatre, and ecstasy. Also known as Bacchus, he induced frenz...
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut Architects of Worlds -- 85,439 views
American author (1922-2007) of "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle." Blended...
World Heritage Site
World Heritage Site Living Heritage -- 77,205 views
UNESCO designates sites of "outstanding value to humanity" for protection. Landm...
Cronus
Cronus Myths & Legends -- 73,301 views
Titan leader, son of Gaia & Uranus. Cronus overthrew his father with a sickle, r...
H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells Architects of Worlds -- 71,668 views
English author (1866-1946), "Father of Science Fiction." Pioneered alien invasio...
Hiroo Onoda
Hiroo Onoda ??? -- 70,360 views
Imperial Japanese Army Lt. Onoda (1922-2014) hid on Lubang, Philippines, after W...
Cherry blossom
Cherry blossom Untamed Wilds -- 64,386 views
Sakura are Prunus Cerasus flowers, often vanilla-scented. Native to the Northern...
Toyota Supra
Toyota Supra Full Throttle -- 60,949 views
Toyota's Supra, a sports car & grand tourer, debuted in 1978. Early models share...
Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett Architects of Worlds -- 57,664 views
English author (1948-2015) of 41 Discworld comic fantasy novels. Master satirist...
Nissan Skyline GT-R
Nissan Skyline GT-R Full Throttle -- 52,769 views
Japanese sports car, first a Skyline variant (1969-72, KPGC10). Revived in 1989 ...
Jules Verne
Jules Verne Architects of Worlds -- 52,437 views
French novelist (1828-1905), pioneer of science fiction. "Twenty Thousand League...
Mazda RX-7
Mazda RX-7 Full Throttle -- 51,697 views
Mazda's RX-7, built 1978-2002, is a front mid-engine, RWD sports car. Three gene...
Hephaestus
Hephaestus Myths & Legends -- 51,223 views
Greek god of metalworking, fire, & crafts. Son of Hera (or Zeus & Hera), Hephaes...
Euphrates
Euphrates Lost Empires -- 49,493 views
West Asia's longest river, the Euphrates, is 2,780km long. Originating in Turkey...
Atlas (mythology)
Atlas (mythology) Myths & Legends -- 49,074 views
Titan son of Iapetus, Atlas was tasked with holding the heavens after the Titano...
Hallucination (artificial intelligence)
Hallucination (artificial intelligence) ??? -- 48,970 views
AI "hallucinations" are false outputs presented as fact, arising from LLM confab...
Perseus
Perseus Myths & Legends -- 46,634 views
Greek hero, son of Zeus & Danaë. Perseus founded the Perseid dynasty & predates ...
Pharaoh
Pharaoh Lost Empires -- 45,407 views
Egyptian monarch from c. 3150 BCE to 30 BCE, though title usage began later. Rul...
Octavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler Architects of Worlds -- 44,587 views
American author Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006) penned award-winning science and s...
Thoth
Thoth Myths & Legends -- 40,265 views
Egyptian deity of wisdom, writing, & the moon, often depicted with an ibis or ba...
Martial arts
Martial arts Living Heritage -- 36,740 views
Codified combat systems, practiced globally for self-defense, exercise, or compe...
Mosque
Mosque Living Heritage -- 31,035 views
Masjids are Muslim places of worship, evolving from simple prayer spaces (650-75...
Giganotosaurus
Giganotosaurus Primeval -- 27,507 views
Giant southern lizard from Argentina, lived 99-95 MYA. One of the largest therop...
Cupid
Cupid Myths & Legends -- 26,340 views
Roman god of desire, son of Venus & Mars. Also known as Amor, his Greek counterp...
Ferrari Testarossa
Ferrari Testarossa Full Throttle -- 25,646 views
Ferrari's flat-12 "redhead" debuted at the 1984 Paris Auto Show. The Pininfarina...
Gimli Glider
Gimli Glider ??? -- 24,078 views
Boeing 767, Air Canada Flight 143, ran out of fuel mid-flight July 23, 1983. Cre...
Dilophosaurus
Dilophosaurus Primeval -- 23,833 views
Early Jurassic theropod from North America, ~186 MYA. *Dilophosaurus* had twin c...
Carnotaurus
Carnotaurus Primeval -- 23,331 views
S. American abelisaurid from the Late Cretaceous (69-66 MYA). Noted for its uniq...
Deinonychus
Deinonychus Primeval -- 22,653 views
Cretaceous dromaeosaur from North America, 115-94 MYA. "Terrible claw" on each f...
LaFerrari
LaFerrari Full Throttle -- 21,850 views
F150 project, the LaFerrari is a limited-run, mid-engine hybrid sports car. Buil...
Argentinosaurus
Argentinosaurus Primeval -- 21,556 views
Late Cretaceous titanosaur from Argentina. Fragmentary remains suggest lengths o...
Parasaurolophus
Parasaurolophus Primeval -- 20,817 views
Late Cretaceous hadrosaur from North America (~76 MYA). Notable for its long, cu...
Pterodactylus
Pterodactylus Primeval -- 20,314 views
"Winged finger" reptile from Late Jurassic Bavaria. *P. antiquus* was the first ...
Musical instrument
Musical instrument Living Heritage -- 19,885 views
Devices making music since human culture's dawn. Early uses included rituals; me...
African penguin
African penguin Untamed Wilds -- 18,669 views
Critically endangered penguin native to South Africa & Namibia. Old World specie...
Lamborghini Diablo
Lamborghini Diablo Full Throttle -- 18,301 views
Lamborghini's V12 supercar, built 1990-2001. The Diablo was the first production...
Ferrari Enzo
Ferrari Enzo Full Throttle -- 17,981 views
Named for the founder, the Enzo debuted in 2002. This mid-engine sports car used...
Pteranodon
Pteranodon Primeval -- 17,916 views
Toothless pterosaur from late Cretaceous North America. P. longiceps wingspans e...
Iguanodon
Iguanodon Primeval -- 15,268 views
Iguanodontian dinosaur named in 1825, known for thumb spikes and prehensile fing...
Porsche 959
Porsche 959 Full Throttle -- 14,494 views
German sports car, 1986-1993. Originally a Group B rally car, then road legal fo...
Heimdall
Heimdall Myths & Legends -- 13,068 views
Norse god, son of Odin and nine mothers. Guardian of Bifröst, the rainbow bridge...
Photo 51
Photo 51 Eureka Archives -- 13,053 views
1952 X-ray diffraction image of DNA, "Photo 51" was taken by Raymond Gosling at ...
Loving County, Texas
Loving County, Texas ??? -- 12,906 views
Texas county, reorganized 1931 from Reeves. Named for Oliver Loving, cattle driv...
Ceratosaurus
Ceratosaurus Primeval -- 11,898 views
Late Jurassic theropod from North America and Europe, named for its prominent na...
Diomede Islands
Diomede Islands ??? -- 11,423 views
Two islands in the Bering Strait: Big Diomede (Russia) and Little Diomede (USA)....
Chinstrap penguin
Chinstrap penguin Untamed Wilds -- 10,758 views
*Pygoscelis antarcticus* nests on Antarctic & S. Pacific islands. Recognizable b...
Judith Slaying Holofernes (Artemisia Gentileschi, Florence)
Judith Slaying Holofernes (Artemisia Gentileschi, Florence) Masterworks -- 8,609 views
Judith Beheading Holofernes c. 1620, now at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, is t...
African fish eagle
African fish eagle Untamed Wilds -- 6,868 views
Sub-Saharan eagle, *Icthyophaga vocifer*, favors open water habitats. National b...
Crowned eagle
Crowned eagle Untamed Wilds -- 6,794 views
Sub-Saharan raptor, *Stephanoaetus coronatus*, favors forests. Powerful talons &...
Tromelin Island
Tromelin Island ??? -- 6,680 views
French-claimed Indian Ocean isle, also named Isle of Sand. 500km N of Réunion, i...
List of children's games
List of children's games Living Heritage -- 6,452 views
Folk games, passed child-to-child, need minimal equipment and oral rules. Played...
Coral Triangle
Coral Triangle Untamed Wilds -- 5,948 views
"Amazon of the seas," a 5.7M km² marine region spanning Indonesia, Philippines, ...
Analytic hierarchy process
Analytic hierarchy process Eureka Archives -- 5,925 views
AHP: Decision-making technique using math & psychology. Developed in the 1970s b...
Sap
Sap Untamed Wilds -- 5,690 views
Xylem or phloem fluid transports water & nutrients in plants. Distinct from late...
Amazon parrot
Amazon parrot Untamed Wilds -- 5,201 views
Amazona parrots inhabit the Americas, from South America to Mexico. These Psitta...
The Baptism of Christ (Verrocchio and Leonardo)
The Baptism of Christ (Verrocchio and Leonardo) Masterworks -- 5,126 views
The Baptism of Christ is an oil-on-panel painting finished around 1475 in the st...
The Little Street
The Little Street Masterworks -- 4,929 views
The Little Street (Het Straatje) is a painting by the Dutch painter Johannes Ver...
Adoration of the Magi (Leonardo)
Adoration of the Magi (Leonardo) Masterworks -- 4,617 views
The Adoration of the Magi is an unfinished early painting by the Italian Renaiss...
The Bathers (Cézanne)
The Bathers (Cézanne) Masterworks -- 4,507 views
The Bathers (French: Les Grandes Baigneuses) is an oil painting by French artist...
Bathers at Asnières
Bathers at Asnières Masterworks -- 4,058 views
Bathers at Asnières (French: Une Baignade, Asnières) is an 1884 oil on canvas pa...
Bathsheba at Her Bath (Rembrandt)
Bathsheba at Her Bath (Rembrandt) Masterworks -- 3,848 views
Bathsheba at Her Bath (or Bathsheba with King David's Letter) is an oil painting...
Arboreal locomotion
Arboreal locomotion Untamed Wilds -- 3,815 views
Arboreal locomotion: tree-based animal movement. Evolution favors specialized tr...
Belshazzar's Feast (Rembrandt)
Belshazzar's Feast (Rembrandt) Masterworks -- 3,583 views
Belshazzar's Feast is a major painting by Rembrandt now in the National Gallery,...
The Battle of San Romano
The Battle of San Romano Masterworks -- 3,557 views
The Battle of San Romano is a set of three paintings by the Florentine painter P...
Bacchus (Caravaggio)
Bacchus (Caravaggio) Masterworks -- 3,550 views
Bacchus (c. 1596) is an oil painting by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Meri...
Anne Blunt, 15th Baroness Wentworth
Anne Blunt, 15th Baroness Wentworth Trailblazers -- 3,393 views
Lady Anne Blunt (1837-1917): English co-founder of Crabbet Arabian Stud with hus...
Horreum
Horreum Lost Empires -- 2,259 views
Roman public warehouse, or *horreum*, stored grain & goods. Rome had ~300 by the...
Cannibalism in poultry
Cannibalism in poultry ??? -- 1,782 views
Poultry cannibalism: intraspecies consumption in fowl, notably egg-laying hens. ...
Short-toed snake eagle
Short-toed snake eagle Untamed Wilds -- 1,722 views
Accipitridae family raptor, also called short-toed eagle. Circaetus genus from G...
Jegichagi
Jegichagi Living Heritage -- 1,655 views
Korean winter game, Jegichagi, uses a coin-weighted paper shuttlecock. Players k...
Alfred Werner
Alfred Werner Eureka Archives -- 1,547 views
Swiss chemist (1866-1919) at Zurich. Won 1913 Nobel for his coordination complex...
Banalinga
Banalinga Living Heritage -- 1,403 views
Narmada River stones, naturally eroded into Shiva lingam shapes. Called Svayambh...
Castle town
Castle town Living Heritage -- 1,355 views
Settlements grew near castles, especially in Medieval Europe. Alnwick & Arundel ...
Bengali traditional games
Bengali traditional games Living Heritage -- 1,150 views
Bengal's rural games, played in Bangladesh & West Bengal, date back millennia. R...
Callirrhoe (moon)
Callirrhoe (moon) Celestial Vault -- 755 views
Jupiter XVII, Callirrhoe, is an irregular moon discovered in 1999, confirmed 200...
Niloofar Rahmani
Niloofar Rahmani Trailblazers -- 717 views
Afghan pilot, born early 1990s. First female fixed-wing aviator in Afghanistan p...
Albiorix (moon)
Albiorix (moon) Celestial Vault -- 694 views
Saturn XXVI, Albiorix, is the Gallic group's largest member. Discovered in 2000,...
Praxidike (moon)
Praxidike (moon) Celestial Vault -- 671 views
Jupiter XXVII, a retrograde irregular moon. Discovered in 2000, it orbits Jupite...
Erriapus
Erriapus Celestial Vault -- 599 views
Saturnian moon, also known as XXVIII. Discovered in 2000, it's a prograde irregu...
Aitne (moon)
Aitne (moon) Celestial Vault -- 524 views
Jupiter XXXI, discovered in 2001, is a retrograde irregular moon. Part of the Ca...
Autonoe (moon)
Autonoe (moon) Celestial Vault -- 522 views
Jupiter XXVIII, discovered in 2001 by Sheppard's team. This 4km moon orbits at 2...
Manasi Pradhan
Manasi Pradhan Trailblazers -- 495 views
Indian women's rights activist, born 1962 in Odisha. Founder of Honour for Women...
Assyrian homeland
Assyrian homeland Lost Empires -- 0 views
Upper Mesopotamian region spanning Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Syria. Assyrians, descend...
Berserker
Berserker Lost Empires -- 0 views
Norse warriors in a trance-like battle rage. Attested in Old Norse texts, berser...
Ancient Egyptian creation myths
Ancient Egyptian creation myths Lost Empires -- 0 views
Old Kingdom texts (2700 BC) detail varied creation myths. Atum/Ra arose from cha...
Horus name
Horus name Lost Empires -- 0 views
Ancient Egyptian royal crest, predating the "great five names." Often called "se...
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis Architects of Worlds -- 0 views
British author (1898-1963) & Oxford scholar, C.S. Lewis wrote *The Chronicles of...
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley Architects of Worlds -- 0 views
English writer & philosopher (1894-1963), famed for "Brave New World." A Huxley ...
Alexandra David-Néel
Alexandra David-Néel Trailblazers -- 0 views
French explorer (1868-1969) famed for her 1924 journey to forbidden Lhasa, Tibet...
Alexandra Kosteniuk
Alexandra Kosteniuk Trailblazers -- 0 views
Born in Russia, April 23, 1984, this chess grandmaster was Women's World Champio...
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr Trailblazers -- 0 views
Austrian-American actress (1914-2000), famed for roles in "Algiers" & "Samson an...
Jaguar E-Type
Jaguar E-Type Full Throttle -- 0 views
British sports car made by Jaguar 1961-1974, known as XK-E in North America. Its...
Lamborghini Countach
Lamborghini Countach Full Throttle -- 0 views
Italian sports car, 1974-1990. Lamborghini's rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive i...
Anubis
Anubis Myths & Legends -- 0 views
Egyptian jackal-headed god of mummification and the afterlife. Guide of souls to...
Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam Eureka Archives -- 0 views
Pakistani theoretical physicist (1926-1996); 1979 Nobel laureate for electroweak...
Albert A. Michelson
Albert A. Michelson Eureka Archives -- 0 views
Prussian-born American physicist (1852-1931). Nobel laureate (1907) for precise ...
Alexander Fleming
Alexander Fleming Eureka Archives -- 0 views
Scottish physician (1881-1955). Nobel laureate for co-discovering penicillin in ...
Bromine
Bromine Eureka Archives -- 0 views
Element 35, Br, is a red-brown liquid isolated in 1825/6 by Löwig & Balard. Name...
Lithium
Lithium Eureka Archives -- 0 views
Alkali metal, symbol Li, atomic number 3. Discovered in 1817 from a Swedish mine...
Dinosaur
Dinosaur Eureka Archives -- 0 views
Reptiles of Dinosauria clade, appearing in the Triassic period (243-233 mya). Do...
Oxygen
Oxygen Eureka Archives -- 0 views
Symbol O, atomic number 8. A reactive nonmetal & oxidizer, it's Earth's most abu...
Centaurus
Centaurus Celestial Vault -- 0 views
Southern constellation, one of Ptolemy's 48. Represents a centaur in Greek myth....
Andromeda (constellation)
Andromeda (constellation) Celestial Vault -- 0 views
Named for a Greek myth, this northern constellation is best viewed in autumn. Al...
Apollo program
Apollo program Celestial Vault -- 0 views
US space program (1961-1972) under NASA. Conceived by Eisenhower, goal set by Ke...
Astronaut
Astronaut Celestial Vault -- 0 views
"Star sailor" trained for spaceflight. NASA, FAA, & military use the term. Russi...
Ambigram
Ambigram Living Heritage -- 0 views
Calligraphic design yielding different meanings based on orientation. Term coine...