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Featured Article: Battle of Charleston (1862)

The Battle of Charleston was a Confederate victory in Kanawha County, Virginia, on September 13, 1862, during the American Civil War. Troops led by Major General William W. Loring defeated a Union force led by Colonel Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn. This battle, which featured extensive use of artillery but few casualties, was the second major fight in Loring's Kanawha Valley Campaign of 1862 that succeeded in driving Union forces out of the Kanawha River Valley.

Popular Article: Homo (genus)

Clockwise from top left: A reconstructed Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis) skeleton, a modern human (Homo sapiens) female with a child in India, a reconstructed Homo habilis skull, and a replica skull of Peking Man (subspecies of Homo erectus

Homo is the genus that includes modern humans and their close extinct relatives, such as Homo habilis and Homo erectus. Members of Homo are distinguished from other hominids by an erect posture, a large cranium, two-footed gait, fully opposable thumbs, and well-developed tool-making ability. All species except Homo sapiens (modern humans) are extinct. Homo neanderthalensis is traditionally considered the last surviving relative. The word homo, the Latin name for "man" in the original sense of "human being," or "person," was chosen originally by Carolus Linnaeus in his classification system.

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Illusions are distortions of sensory perception, "mocking" the senses so that most people are deceived (source: Illusion)

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