Nature or Culture? Europeans Can Vote on the New Banknote Design – A panel of jurors selected the designs, which follow one of two themes: European places and ideas or birds and rivers, the latter of which is meant to symbolize freedom and unity. While the basic elements are the same—all collections devoted to culture feature the same six figures, including Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, composer Ludwig van Beethoven, scientist Marie Curie, opera singer Maria Callas, and authors Bertha von Suttner and Miguel de Cervantes, for example—individual approaches appear in the layout, aesthetic, and composition. –> https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/07/euro-banknote-design-centr...

How US Neo-Nazism Actually Works –> https://cvltnation.com/how-us-neo-nazism-actually-works/

David C. Smith & Robert E. Howard, Part Two: Red Sonja –> https://www.blackgate.com/2026/07/22/david-c-smith-robert-e-howar...

Nameneko Cats From the 1980s – The 1980s fad for dressing cats up as tough guys and girls –> https://flashbak.com/nameneko-juvenille-delinquent-cats-and-kitte...

Howard's "Marchers of Valhalla": Battles, Cults, Love and Honor – James Allison, a character through whom Howard explored the concepts of racial memory and reincarnation, is a man who has lived many lives and is able to recall his past identities, always as a hero facing great dangers. –> https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2026/6/14/howards-marchers-of-valh...

Into the Weird: An Introduction –> https://www.blackgate.com/2026/07/11/into-the-weird-an-introduction/

More on Josef Madlener – it was chronologically impossible for a postcard first printed in 1935 to have influenced The Hobbit, and specifically the character Gandalf, whose origin was in the late 1920s, while the manuscript of the bulk of the tale was in existence by early 1933 for C.S. Lewis to be reading it –> https://tolkienandfantasy.blogspot.com/2026/07/more-on-josef-madl...