I know blacks and whites were not allowed to marry during this time, but what about Asians, Hispanics, Arabs, etc.? Also, were they allowed to marry amongst each other (example: a Hispanic and an Asian)?

I'm looking for a comprehensive, relatively even-handed and modern (or at least not terribly outdated) account of each conflict if anyone can recommend a few books.

I've been fascinated by the Achaemenids for a long time. By trade I'm a Roman Republic guy and as such I have learnt a lot about Parthia and Rome's struggles with them, but the great Achaemenid predecessor is somewhat of a mystery to me. Would very much value any pointers as to where I can learn more about them. Thanks!

When black soldiers returned home from the war, did segregation and prejudice not allow me to use my G.I. bill to the fullest? Was I able to attend integrated colleges in the North? What about housing? Was I confined to black sector neighborhoods, or did serving my country, help break some racial barriers?

I'm writing a novel and one of my characters is Russian and has some history behind him. I'm half asleep and it's 11pm, I apologize for anything stupid or misphrased.

I don’t really understand how the Soviet Union worked and I don’t know much about Russian culture, please help me gain knowledge, I would like some books too to extend my research, if there are any museums or places I can interview experts/more people, please tell me. I can’t travel to Russia yet nor can I speak Russian yet. Should I ask this elsewhere? I’m also going to interview people in New York, is there any questions I should ask or avoid?

Here are the questions I will ask them:

What did you miss the most about the Soviet Union? What was your childhood like?

Did you have anything against it? When did these feelings arise?

What did it mean to be Soviet? What was life like?

What was it like when you first emigrated here? What overwhelmed or surprised you?

What did you see in America that you realized that your country was totally wrong about?

Please tell me everything you can and I preferably want the context to be 1930s-1960s:

What was life like throughout the Soviet era?

What was rich about it in the sense of culture, film, media .etc?

What were the consequences of showing your dislike for it or wanting to immigrate? When were emigration policies most loose?

How did people express their hate? How did they sense that something was wrong in the system they were living in? About how many people thought this?

Was it possible for a foreigner and a Soviet to elope? If they bear a child, let’s say the mother is from France and the father is Russian, would the child be able to live in France? Can the father move along and live with them? Would the child/family be able to go to Russia to visit/have a vacation?

For example, if this child who was let’s say, a prodigy pianist and he moved to France but decides to come back to visit to perform as an adult, although he has moved to other styles of music that are more Western and he becomes quite well known.. he promises to conform to the authorities and play what is appropriate, will he be allowed to come back?

Was rock heavily condemned by the authorities?

How hard was it to emigrate? Was there any consequences (for wanting) to emigrate? How hard was it to visit countries out of the Soviet Union?

What was smuggled that everyone wanted/used? How hard was it to smuggle something?

What are some characteristics of the culture during the Soviet era?

Did TV commericals exist? When were TVs introduced into the households?

Was entrepreneurship possible? How did that work? Could anyone get rich off it? If their companies existed before the Soviet Union arised how would that work?

Did queuing for food/necessities always exist throughout the Soviet era?

How strong was Russophobia throughout Europe and the USA? What would’ve been the degree of this hatred someone would receive (Europe vs. USA)? Would a celebrity of Russian descent during the Cold War era receive much discrimination in the USA?

What was it like to be Jewish? I noticed there are a lot of Russian Jewish diaspora in New York, was there anything against them? When/why did most of them emigrate?

What was the view on homosexuality? What would happen to someone if they were caught doing something or suspected that they were gay?

Considering how many thousands of years of rich history eastern asia had, how in depth do students learn this history? How far back do your history lessons go? And how much western history is taught considering how many more years of recorded eastern history there is?

Just wondering. Like. Just. Um. Katanas? I'm pretty sure... They're not that great. Or at the very most average.

I'm super curious about this one because I guess it seems really random to me! Also, I would love to know why we use them for funerals and such as well

A passage from Sharpe's Fury (Bernard Cornwell) states:

"He had six battalions that, between them, had four thousand men who marched on a wide front. Leval kept two battalions behind the four who advanced in columns of divisions. French battalions had only six companies, and a column of divisions was two companies broad and three deep."

So 4,000 men in 6 battalions is 666/667 men per battalion... French battalions had only six companies so that is a further 111/112 men per company.... a column of divisions was two companies broad and three deep so that's six companies per division? So 666 men per division?

My question is why bother splitting themselves into divisions? Was it just a more adaptable way to organize men rather than having to find their specific battalion? Instead of everyone running around trying to get in their specific spot they just group up with the closest 666?

Sorry if this has been asked I am just trying to understand. I love the Revolution/Napoleonic Wars.

If so what kinds, and if not why not? Also were unguided rockets used for ground attack or to shoot down zeppelins during the same conflict?

I never hear anything about it. The most I have heard is that there "was" a nation, but no source (only the Bible) mentions how great it is. So are there any records and if so what are they? I know a little about the Black Sea Scrolls and the crusades. What do historians think about the subject?

I have been unable to find any decent information online about his topic...I gather that, at least in Europe, it sort of became an accessible means of studying the ocean around the mid-18th century; but surely there must have been substantial curiosity and some attempts made before this?

Did fighter planes or tanks get better? What about gas? The geneva conventions weren't until 1949, if I recall correctly, so why was it less prevalent?

I am reading Rubicon by Tom Holland(?) and he mentions a traveler seeing the smog from Rome before the city, and publicani working thousands of slaves to death over the pockedmarked landscape of Spain, covered in smog from smelting furnaces, belching fumes that killed birds and burned the skin and turned it white. He says that smog sprang up wherever the Romans power spread. Do we know if this industrialization affected the earth at all from the sources and the sciences? Thank you.

Why was Vichy France set up as an Axis puppet? Why didn't the Axis just occupy France?

The archers joined in hand to hand combat after running out of arrows. So how long had they been shooting since the start of battle and how many arrows in total had they let fly, each or in total, approximately.

America gained its independence around the same time as Australia was founded, and they were colonized by the same country. So why did they end up with such different accents?

When I was taking Georgia History in 8th grade, I seem to recall my teacher telling a story about a very prominent coastal town (maybe around the very early 20th century?) that was more or less wiped off the map due to a hurricane.

If anyone has information on that memory I would be interested, but I wanted to ask in a broader sense about similar cases in US history. Have there ever been very culturally or economically notable cities that we lost because of earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, etc?

I'm curious more about larger population centers starting around the beghining of the 19th Century, because I know there were many settlements abandoned in our very early history.