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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]

![First flag on Guam on boat hook mast. Two U.S. officers plant the American flag on Guam eight minutes after U.S. Marines and Army assault troops landed on 21 July 1944 [3072 × 2435]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/rlqrs7yakkeh1-scaled.jpeg)
![Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, 31, gives an exclusive interview to Ed Bradley for 60 Minutes from United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute. Controversy over the episode led to a ban on televised interviews of federal death row inmates (Indiana, 2000) [1080 x 1440].](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/5rpgql4f20eh1.jpeg)

![Exhausted from their rapid advance inland from the Normandy beachhead, U.S. soldiers relax for a few minutes outside a French cafe. 20 June, 1944 [3600 × 2994]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ermrpl0yfg8h1-scaled.jpeg)

![“Staring into the abyss”. Bosniak soldiers just minutes before assault on Croat enclave in Central Bosnia. After first minutes of action soldier on the left lost his leg, 1993. Bosnia and Herzegovina [610×442]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/75kjy1y4ptwg1.jpeg)

![Parisians waving at the Santos-Dumont 6 airship, which won its inventor the Prêmio Deutsch award for travelling from Parc Saint Cloud to the Eiffel Tower and back in under 30 minutes. (1901) [2143×2811]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/pkjv4tqqdwwg1-scaled.jpeg)

![“Kombat” is a heroic photograph of the Soviet political commissar of the 220th Infantry Regiment urging his soldiers to attack on the Eastern Front in Soviet Ukraine, July 12, 1942. The man in the photograph is said to have died minutes after it was taken. [1280×956]](https://wp.rifat.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/v6momyjwqixg1.jpeg)
