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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]

![Mother with child. One of the few surviving photos of the Kazakh Famine (Asharshylyq). Driven by forced collectivization, the man-made tragedy claimed the lives of ~40% of all ethnic Kazakhs, Soviet Union, c. 1931–1933 [920×822]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/5f3rrcq4tcdh1.jpeg)
![Hell on Earth- The Battle of Saipan, June15-July 9, 1944. The battle claimed more than 46,000 military casualties and at least 8,000 civilian deaths. The high percentage of casualties suffered influenced American planning for future assaults, including the projected invasion of Japan. [1280×1033]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/44r69i9380eh1.jpeg)

![Polish civilian victims of March 26, 1943 massacre committed by Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) assisted by ordinary Ukrainian peasantry in the village of Lipniki (Kostopol County). It claimed the lives of 182 Poles, 4 Jews and 1 Russian. Lipniki, Occupied Poland, March 1943. [815×557]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/uz0mjms16lch1.jpeg)

![John Wesley Hardin, American Wild West outlaw and gunfighter who claimed 42 kills, photographed c. 1871 [900×900]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/b80ptxoqnp2h1.jpeg)

![Billy the Kid (left), 1880, aged 20 — the only confirmed photo in existence. Brushy Bill Roberts (right) claimed to BE Billy the Kid in 1950, 69 years after Pat Garrett shot him dead. The state of New Mexico refused his pardon. Same man? [1280×720]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/leuyb6q6sk0h1.jpeg)

![Susan Smith, 23, and her husband talk to the press after the disappearances of their two sons. She drove her car into a lake and left the boys there to drown. During the interview, Smith claimed that a phantom black male carjacker had kidnapped her sons (South Carolina, 1994) [1600 x 1277].](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/z6usd56q6avg1.png)
