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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]


![Sam, a cheeky 7lb rhesus monkey, prepares for his flight into space. Sam rode a Project Mercury type capsule and travelled 55 miles high and 200 miles out into the Atlantic. (4 December 1959) [2110×2706]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/eonqn1s12ysg1-scaled.jpeg)



![“Huitote girl and owner”, photographed by anthropologist William Curtis Farabee in the south-eastern Peruvian Amazon. The “owner” forced several Huitoto families to emigrate 1,000+ miles away from their homeland after a dispute with a Peruvian rubber firm. Image circa 1908-1909. [443×640]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/xcvzi6zqpdvg1.jpeg)
