Pretty much the title. How much was it worth? How much of the global market had it cornered by it's height?

When did private media outlets cease to exist? How strong was governmental influence over the headlines, did they dictate them or was there some editorial discretion? How did censorship function?

How much evidence exists to support the idea that Americans were hugely racist to the Japanese from around the 1940's? any suggestions on books specifying in this area?

To elaborate, why the Secret Service? Why not one of the other federal law enforcement agencies, a new agency created for the purpose, or the military?

I've lived in the US, France, and Ireland. In France and Ireland, you see little shops on the street all the time where you can bet on sporting events, and sports gambling is a huge part of sporting culture, while in the US, though people still do bet on sporting events, it's not as pervasive.

I know that many forms of gambling are common in both places, but I'm wondering what caused the difference.

Why was the tight, shield to shield style that was employed so successfully abandoned later on after the Empire fell?

Supplemental; When and where did passports and the current notion of protected boarders originate? I know for example a Roman boarder was relatively porous unless they were engaged in war with the neighbor that shares the boarder but boarders and immigration today tends to be more regulated and a more important factor of national sovereignty.

"In 1938 Hitler thought that he had with great care laid the groundwork for the first of his wars. Czechoslovakia would be destroyed in a war.... Once tricked into negotiations by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Hitler tried desperately to extricate himself; but then at the last moment funked at war when confronted by the doubts of his own people and advisors, / the warning of war with England and France, the reluctance of Mussol­ini, and the hesitation of Hungary. Reluctantly he settled for his ostens­ ible aims rather than his real ambition; that is to say, he took the portions of Czechoslovakia adjacent to Germany and inhabited predominantly by Germans, but he refrained from the war to destroy Czechoslovakia and seize most of the country as he had originally intended. While others thought of the Munich agreement of 1938 as a sign of German triumph and as a symbol of weak-kneed acquiescence in aggression, Hitler looked on it as a terrible disappointment then and as the greatest error of his career later." Weinberg, World At Arms, pg 27-28.

Weinberg's view puts a different spin on the "Munich analogy" that is used so often in foreign policy discussion.

Also, how far did they penetrate into Chinese territory?

Also, Were his motives for the Persecutions on the jews more racial or political? [I know he blamed the jews for debt and for destroying germany, but why? [were these ideas targeted because of his prejudice against the Jews for their religion] And, what was with the story about the US and soviet union splitting up the German scientists. What did they know? Please try to not to focus on "the Holocaust period, im talking about Pre/Post info shit!

I'm not trying to start any kind of religious battle at all, I'm seriously wondering:

the bible we have today is written in verse/prose style. Was that how other documents of the time were also written?

Per historical information I have seen, the writing of the bible / new testament wasn't done until approximately 100ad (or later); was the bible originally written in that way, or was it formatted by later scribes?

For example, why isn't New York the capital of New York, L.A. the capital of California, Portland the capital of Oregon, etc.

Hello Historians!

I was wondering what was going on in Ancient Greece before democracy, what happened leading up to the democratic shift and ideas that we still hold true today.

What the political implications were, the social and economic problems of the time were and possibly opposition from the elites (and their response to the shift).

I hope this isn't too many questions, this subreddit has definitely got the knowledge!