Back in 1862, soldiers fighting in the American Civil War noticed a strange blue glow on their wounds. It took a couple of High School students to figure out what it was. We've been nominated...
========== Back in 1862, soldiers fighting in the American
Civil War noticed something odd:Some of the injured had wounds that glowed
blue -- and those who did, seemed to be morelikely to survive.They called this weird light the Angel’s
Glow, and figured that it must be a sign ofsupernatural protection.And for more than a hundred years, nobody
knew what caused it -- until a pair of highschool scientists figured it out:The soldiers with glowing wounds were being
protected by bacteria.The American Civil War was a pretty rough
place to be.New developments in weaponry made the battles
especially bloody and brutal, resulting inextremely high numbers of casualties on both
sides of the conflict.The Battle of Shiloh was a particularly awful
place to be -- when the battlefields cleared...
