GSG 9

Temperature map of the cosmic microwave background measured by the Planck spacecraft

01The pigeons roosting inside the horn antenna were trapped and relocated twice before the engineers accepted the hiss was cosmic.
02Penzias and Wilson won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics — accidentally, while testing satellite communication equipment.
03Princeton cosmologist Robert Dicke had been building a detector specifically to find this radiation; Penzias called him first, and Dicke told his team: 'We've been scooped.'

Chinese propaganda poster from the Korean War era: "Vaccinate everyone, to crush the germ warfare of US imperialism !"

A column of Bulgarian Comitadjis captured during WWI in Thessaloniki .

Predjama Castle

Created in 1973 after German police used untrained officers at Munich and got nine hostages killed, GSG 9 made its debut four years later by storming a hijacked 737 in Mogadishu and losing no one.