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 in Medieval Europe, 16th-century eyebrow interpretation, and that time Supreme Court Justice Rehnquist proposed to Supreme Court Justice O’Connor.