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![On May 18, 1980, Mt. St Helen in Washington State underwent the most cataclysmic and destructive volcanic eruption in US history. Triggered by a magnitude 5.1 earthquake, it sent ash 15 miles into the air and flattened 230 sq. miles of forest within minutes. The disaster claimed 57 lives. [1024×681]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/jfdgo4g1fx1h1.jpeg)
On May 18, 1980, Mt. St Helen in Washington State underwent the most cataclysmic and destructive volcanic eruption in US history. Triggered by a magnitude 5.1 earthquake, it sent ash 15 miles into the air and flattened 230 sq. miles of forest within minutes. The disaster claimed 57 lives. [1024×681]

![A Moscow journalist interviews a penguin, 1966. [1080×1067]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/8861hkghnv1h1.jpeg)
![March 1945: Women in Strasbourg gather around a jeep of the Cinematographic Service of the French army. It’s decorated with a German street sign, and the hood is painted with a list of liberated towns and cities the vehicle has passed through. [1036×1080]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/72zxw368smqg1.jpeg)

![Women’s Commando members carrying a banner reading “Workers of the world, fight and unite for a White S.A.” during the Rand Rebellion. Fordsburg, Transvaal, Union of South Africa. 1922 [478×599]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/L78Cx6iip4A-4eVMa-pC0cxbaN0SwiZCTaW_Rfa9r4g.jpeg)

![The Brandon brothers of Gallatin, Tennessee. These 3 brothers enlisted in Co. H of the 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment in 1861. A 4th brother, not shown, was captured at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. [960×683]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/lv4oiyrvbnqg1.jpeg)

![Japan’s “Special Attack Unit” kamikaze pilots, who would intentionally crash planes into enemy ships in the pacific (1944) [600×406]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/ouuwri3lmpqg1.jpeg)

![Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Imperial Russia at the Alexander Palace, in her shared bedroom with her sister Olga – south of Saint Petersburg, c. November 6th, 1916. [426 x 807]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/wb19ycdrlpqg1.jpeg)

![San Francisco Earthquake of 1906: Burning of San Francisco. Looking toward the Bay, 1906 [1589×1207]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/nrkdwkl4yoqg1.jpeg)

![A 1965 Life Magazine cover depicting the impending violence that the voting rights marchers are about to face in Selma, Alabama. [1080 x 1369]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/ggr7d5lrnnqg1.jpeg)

![Village elder kissing his granddaughter. China, 1946. Photo by Dmitri Kessel for LIFE Magazine. [2100×2550]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/83gy68zrtoqg1.jpeg)
