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*User: "Alexa, ask Magic History what happened on August thirtieth."
 
*User: "Alexa, ask Magic History what happened on August thirtieth."
*Alexa: "For August thirtieth, in 2003, ....
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*Alexa: "For August thirtieth: In 1829, George Heubeck was born.  In 1924, Ed Voorhees was born. In 1952, The annual convention of The Texas Association of Magicians starts at the Hilton Hotel in Fort Worth. In 2006, Igor Kio dies.
  
 
   
 
   

Revision as of 13:11, 10 December 2016

Ask Magic History, is an Alexa Skill developed by User:Jpecore

It will currently provides magic related events that happened on any day of the year, as recorded by MagicPedia.

The skill can be enabled at http://alexa.amazon.com/spa/index.html#skills/dp/B01N0C2BK8


Example:

  • User: "Alexa, ask Magic History what happened on August thirtieth."
  • Alexa: "For August thirtieth: In 1829, George Heubeck was born. In 1924, Ed Voorhees was born. In 1952, The annual convention of The Texas Association of Magicians starts at the Hilton Hotel in Fort Worth. In 2006, Igor Kio dies.



Alternate kinds of phrasings:

  • ask Magic History what happened today?
  • ask Magic History what happened yesterday?
  • ask Magic History to get events for October 1st.
  • ask Magic History what happened? (returns today)




Suggestions for new questions to answer:

  • what was the Genii magazine cover for {month} {year} (completed but not live yet)
  • what is the magic quote of the day? (completed but not live yet)
  • to give me today's facts (today's events in history, quote of the day, and what was on the cover of genii 10 years ago)
  • what books where published in {year}
  • what information do you have on the magazine The Gen?
  • what happened in {year. e.g. 1962}
  • what is in the news?
  • about {topic}
  • who was born in {year}
  • who died in {year}
  • what are the latest MagicPedia articles created ?
  • what are the latest MagicPedia articles updated?
  • what are your latest MagicPedia statistics? (number of pages, number of users, .etc.)



Feel free to add any suggestions would like to see added to this skill.