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In English we have names for historical figures like "Alexander the Great"/"Catherine the Great", "Ivan the Terrible", or "Suleiman the Magnificent". Are these always directly translated the same way or are their titles different depending on the culture/language?

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Why is it that, in the USA, the Republican Party used to be the liberal party of the north and Lincoln while the Democrats were mostly more conservative southerners? How, when, and why did it happen that this situation reversed?

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A professor of mine mentioned in passing how, post-WWII, the US worked with former Nazi scientists like Wernher von Braun. Was this an isolated case, or was there much Cold War-era collaboration of this kind between the US and former Nazis?

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Was the island of Campobello ever considered a US territory?

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In English we have names for historical figures like "Alexander the Great"/"Catherine the Great", "Ivan the Terrible", or "Suleiman the Magnificent". Are these always directly translated the same way or are their titles different depending on the culture/language?	322
Why is it that, in the USA, the Republican Party used to be the liberal party of the north and Lincoln while the Democrats were mostly more conservative southerners? How, when, and why did it happen that this situation reversed?	72
A professor of mine mentioned in passing how, post-WWII, the US worked with former Nazi scientists like Wernher von Braun. Was this an isolated case, or was there much Cold War-era collaboration of this kind between the US and former Nazis?	37
Was the island of Campobello ever considered a US territory?	1