Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞戈

The photo shows a model of the rear part of an old Manchester double deck bus, with an open rear platform. All of the hand rails and other details are in place, and the model only goes as far forward as the rear wheels of the bus.

We bring our #SaturdayShowoff to you, to highlight our collection and maybe tempt you to visit. This week it's a lovely model of the rear of a Manchester bus - it was used in courts after accidents to demonstrate the location of handrails and stairs. Like it? Visiting details at motgm.uk

In this behind-the-scenes photo from The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932), MGM's workshop prepares towering Buddhist statues for use as set design.

Despite present-day associations with peace, art director Cedric Gibbons relied on this monumental Buddhist imagery to evoke mystery and danger. 🧵
🗃️ #filmsky

Smith College just posted a 2-year lecturer position in Buddhist Studies: apply.interfolio.com/182632

"I was more dependent on the app than I wanted to be—I was more performing the act of studying than I was getting new knowledge to penetrate my skull. "

It has a 季陶樓 too, named after the prominent KMT official Dai Jitao

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

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2,400 year-old skeleton mosaic discovered in Turkey with the caption: “Be cheerful, enjoy your life”

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The image shows a rectangular Roman dice tower (turricula) made of four copper alloy (bronze) plates with punched cut-out Latin letters and cut-out decorative patterns. At the bottom front is a stepped exit chute with small bronze bells attached to the opening. The tower is a Roman anti-cheating device. It has an open top and is hollow inside except for three staggered, downward-sloping plates, designed to randomize dice as they fall, ensuring unpredictable dice rolls. When the dice rolled out of the exit chute they rang the bells! There is a decorative dolphin either side of the stepped exit chute. The top of the front plate has two decorative pine cone finials. Height 25 cm. There is a single die shown next to the stepped base to illustrate how it was used. The front inscription reads: PICTOS VICTOS HOSTIS DELETA LVDITE SECVRI Translated as: ‘The Picts defeated, the enemy has been destroyed, play in safety’. Around the top of the three remaining sides, a second inscription made with cut out letters reads: ‘UTERI/FELIX/VIVAS’ translated as ‘Use happily; may you live well’. Found at a Roman villa at Froitzheim in Germany in 1985.

Roman anti-cheating gaming accessory!

This Roman ‘turricula’ (dice tower) was used to ensure a fair roll of the dice! 🎲🎲🎲

Dice dropped into the top, tumbled over sloping internal levels, and appeared randomly below.

From Froitzheim, Germany, AD 300-400

📷 LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn

#Archaeology

1. General Theory and Religion
2. General Buddhism
3. Chinese Buddhism
4. Chinese Religion
5. Japanese Buddhism and Religion
6. Republican Chinese History and Nationalism Studies (I had a different topic in mind at the time)

Written exams and an oral defense

Screenshot of Chinese text, with "St Penis" appearing in the Latin alphabet

Today in Very Serious Research™️

Ever wonder how Paris' reputation as 'city of love' came about?

You'll have to thank 1920s Chinese travel writers for successfully rebranding the Seine St Denis as 'Saint Penis,' it seems...

'Speaking at the British Academy’s Shape conference in London on 4 March, Tickell said that students who want to study modern foreign languages in the Midlands will only be able to start courses at two institutions: Birmingham and the University of Warwick.' 1/3

1973 Beijing, Tiananmen Square. Photo by John Bulmer.
Winter haze, vast empty space, a man quietly pushing bicycles across a monumental square. The scene is calm yet restrained. Individuals move carefully, almost cautiously a glimpse of the late Cultural Revolution.

Coming June 2026: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

In the 1850s, before it was denuded by archaeologists and the tourism industry, 420 species of flowers and plants grew on the Roman Colosseum — and every single one is catalogued in amateur botanist Richard Deakin's Flora of the Colosseum of Rome (1855): publicdomainreview.org/collection/r...

Color illustration from "The Delafield Affair" featuring a man and woman on horseback in the American West, with the caption "It had come, this question she had not meant to let him ask."

Cover for "Adele Doring on a Ranch" by Grace May North, featuring a woman wearing a cowboy hat riding on a horse with cacti in the background.

Cover for "The Biography of a Prairie Girl" by Eleanor Gates, featuring a white flower and green leaves.

Cover for "The Giants" by Mrs. Fremont Older, featuring an oil rig with flames coming out of the top.

In honor of Women's History Month, we are highlighting materials from the Nina Baym Western Women Writers Collection, which includes Western novels (many of which feature female protagonists), memoirs, and scholarship on women in the American West.

「學習白求恩同志的國際精神。學習他的犧牲精神、責任心與工作熱忱。」

Black and white photo of a Class P-3 streetcar moving east on Howard Park Avenue. It has a Watson fender on the front, with a sign advertising a performance by Douglas Fairbanks. TTC Fonds 16, Series 2285, Item 75.

Fans of vintage transit: we recently digitized Series 2285! It documents streetcars and other vehicles owned by the Toronto Railway Company just before it was incorporated into the newly-formed TTC in 1921.
https://ow.ly/aSGr50YmHXg

That's quite a sexy outfit for a skeleton, I'm impressed

BBC Sounds explores Madchester in new eight-part podcast series - PodcastingToday BBC Sounds is launching a new eight-part podcast charting the rise of the Madchester music scene ahead of the 6 Music Festival in Greater Manchester.

BBC Sounds is launching a new eight-part podcast charting the rise of the Madchester music scene.

The Rise and Fall of Madchester launches on BBC Sounds on Mon 16 March and will also air on 6 Music on Sunday into Mon 23 March from 12am to 2am: podcastingtoday.co.uk/bbc-sounds-e...
#Manchester

A high-altitude hospital, as envisioned in the Sept. 1942 issue of 飛行日本

Choosing love over rockets for that moment yeah

"Alright, it's good!"

Islamic China: An Asian History, a book release conversation with Rian Thum - Full Talk YouTube video by Manchester China Institute

Sorry to have had to miss this book talk by @rianthum.bsky.social but luckily it's up on YouTube now www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnYu...

#UnintentionalPantoneGuide

I was so pleased with this album. Picked up right where they left off, had all the atmosphere and playfulness of their original albums. So happy that I got to see them live in Toronto during their reunion tour.

The little town making nearly all of China's lanterns A remarkable 80% of the country's lanterns are still made by hand in one small town in Hebei Province.

Where do nearly all of #China’s lanterns come from? One small village. We went there for a look:
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www.bbc.com/news/article...

Black Planet?

My message to my students is that yes, GenAI can produce a servicable translation, but learning the structure, grammar, and style of Classical improves one's own abilities both for modern Mandarin and for reading Classical. If we offload translation we lose the ability to shape our translations 1/2

Screenshot from NEH webpage, text reads: "Fellowships provide recipients time to conduct research or to produce books, monographs, peer-reviewed articles, e-books, born-digital materials, translations with annotations or a critical apparatus, or critical editions resulting from previous research. Projects may be at any stage of development. NEH encourages submissions from independent scholars and junior scholars. The 2026 Fellowships competition will only accept projects for research in American history and culture and Western civilization. Competitive applications must focus on topics in the history, culture, and government of the United States in any period from the Colonial Era to the present, or topics in Western civilization from antiquity to the present."

Fun update on National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships: they have to focus on "American history and culture and Western civilization." Sinologists et al. are no longer welcome.
www.neh.gov/grants/resea...
#Sinology 🀄️📚

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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