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The Mechanical Turk, also known as the Automaton Chess Player (German: Schachtürke, lit. ' chess Turk ' ; Hungarian : A Török ), or simply The Turk , was a fraudulent chess -playing machine constructed in 1770, which appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against a human opponent.
Robert Löhr (born 17 January 1973) is a German novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his novel Der Schachautomat , translated into English by Anthea Bell as The Chess Machine . [ 1 ] ( The Secrets of the Chess Machine in the UK).
The name Mechanical Turk was inspired by "The Turk", an 18th-century chess-playing automaton made by Wolfgang von Kempelen that toured Europe, and beat both Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin. It was later revealed that this "machine" was not an automaton, but a human chess master hidden in the cabinet beneath the board and controlling ...
In Missouri, cities are classified into three types: 3rd Class, 4th Class, and those under constitutional charters. A few older cities are incorporated under legislative charters (Carrollton, Chillicothe, LaGrange, Liberty, Miami, Missouri City, and Pleasant Hill) which are no longer allowed.
This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Missouri. A street in Hamburg, Missouri, 1933. Ark (Dent County) Arlington (Phelps County) Bloodland (Pulaski County)
Access to Missouri State Highway Patrol General Headquarters: 186.367: 299.929: Lafayette Street: Access to Lincoln University: 187.388: 301.572: US 50 Bus. west (Missouri Boulevard) to US 54 west – Lake of the Ozarks: At-grade intersection; eastern end of freeway; eastern terminus of US 50 Bus. 187.476– 187.749: 301.713– 302.153
Vulcan is an unincorporated community in southern Iron County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Missouri Route 49 between Des Arc two miles to the south and Annapolis 3.5 miles to the north. Ironton is approximately twenty miles north. The community is in the Big Creek valley. [2] A post office called Vulcan has been in operation since ...
Williamsville is a city in Wayne County, Missouri, United States, along the Black River. The population was 279 at the 2020 census. [4] History.