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Magic History and Assistant

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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 2003, ....



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.