I've heard about this when I was about 10. Of course it may well be an urban legend (even though it wasn't told as one and it has no moral to it).
Basically machine men (wooden mechanical pseudo-robots) are supposed to be kept in those vast underground corridors of Vatican city. They are dating...
The computer wore a turban and played chess
http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/books/05/30/the.turk/index.html
An 18th century marvel is described in 'The Turk'
May 30, 2002 Posted: 10:37 AM EDT (1437 GMT)
(CNN) -- It was the chess computer Deep Blue of its time, a turban-wearing automaton...
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