
Etiket: lives
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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)
![A British soldier talks with a young boy in the republican New Lodge district of Belfast, 20th February 1978. The soldier was about to relieve colleagues in a permanently manned Observation Post in the tower block where the boy lives. [1024×722]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/v1f5mvrzxubh1.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)

![Japanese-American soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 442nd Infantry Regiment, bow their heads in prayer for their departed comrades who gave their lives in combat, Battalion Headquarters area near Cecina, Italy, 1944. [1024 × 800]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/fzc7tsmkmb4h1.jpeg)
