Friday links

"The War to End All Wars" ended 100 years ago on the 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month in 1918. Before it was Veterans Day it was Armistice Day, for the fallen of the First World War: here's some history. 

Rome’s Heroes And America’s Founding Fathers.

The Little-Known Reason Pencils Are Yellow.

Advice on hair washing from the 12th and 17th centuries.

Football Physics: Newton, Einstein and The Forces Behind Those Big Hits.

NASA has plans to probe Uranus in search of gas.

ICYMI, Monday's links are here, and include how telegraph operators were the first to know news of the Civil War (which arrived in code), political maps of the United States from 1850 and 1880, Nazi werewolves, making whiskey and wine in a lab, and Guy Fawkes Day.

Monday links

November 5 is Guy Fawkes Day: God preserved us from the "secret contrivance and hellish malice of Popish Conspirators".

Man uses teeth to pull 677-ton cargo ship.

Telegraph operators were the first to know news of the Civil War, which arrived in code. Related: how the breaking news spread in 1776.

Political maps of the United States from 1850 and 1880.

The Nazi Werewolves Who Terrorized Allied Soldiers at the End of WWII. 

Lab-Made Whiskey and Wine.

ICYMI, Friday's links are here, and include Daylight Saving Time history (including Ben Franklin's satirical proposal), the science of chocolate, personal eating knives if Medieval Europe, 16th century eyebrow interpretation, and that time Supreme Court Justice Rehnquist proposed to Supreme Court Justice O'Connor.