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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.
Mechanical Turk allows Requesters to amass a large number of responses to various types of surveys, from basic demographics to academic research. Other uses include writing comments, descriptions, and blog entries to websites and searching data elements or specific fields in large government and legal documents.
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).
On Oct. 11, 2000, a spill from a Martin County Coal Corp. waste containment pond polluted more than 100 miles of creeks, streams and rivers running through Kentucky and West Virginia.
Martin is located near the center of Floyd County. Kentucky Routes 80 and 122 run along the western side of the city. KY 80 leads southwest 41 miles (66 km) to Hazard and north 5 miles (8 km) to U.S. Route 23 at a point 3 miles (5 km) south of Prestonsburg, the county seat.
Location of Madison County in Kentucky. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Madison County, Kentucky.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Madison County, Kentucky, United States.
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof admitted that the West Coast's "permissive" policies regarding drug usage and combatting addiction "almost killed" many addicts.
When police arrived at Robert Hartman's home in the 4000 block of Church Street in Latonia, they found Patrick Sand, 51, dead in the driveway. 'You don't want to know': Man told neighbor to call ...