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I'd read somewhere that the 2nd Amendment was also put into place to keep rich people from building their own private armies.

That article mentions Darwinia, which is not alternate history.

The Vampire Diaries book series was published first, with the first novel coming out in 1991.

No modern bluegrass, though that might be a back door for rock&roll.

Supposedly, there was a pandemic that killed off alot of Native Americans just before the Purtians came to Plymouth. There were others, but this one was kind of the nail in the coffin for the Native American tribes.

Does the pandemic that many historians think devistated the North American Indians tribes around the early 17th century still happen?

Not trying to cause trouble. What I was trying to say is that the scroll plants the idea, and maybe when he is trying, on paper to recreate it, he has a "eureka" momment, abandons his version of Hero's engine, and goes on to invent a steam engine that is similar to one from otl. Though, I think...

The war could have happened anytime from about 1820 on. If it had happened earlier then about the 1860's, the South would have had the resources to win, or at least hold on longer.

What if the "Great man" is inspired by an an old scroll that talks about Hero's Engine, and gets inspired that way? All kinds of things came down the Silk Roads.

Is heavy water plant at Telemark, Norway still destroyed? What about Peenemunde?

The ancient Greeks had the technology to create a steam engine, and a railroad, but the powers that be didn't see a need for one. What makes some local magistrate decide to take what probably starts out as one of his "toys", and turn into a machine to do work?

What makes them develop steam engines? Do they start out as toys? Does the idea come down the Silk Road from the West?

What if Oliver Cromwell, in England, and Governor William Bradford of the Massachusetts Bay Colony had not made the celebration of Christmas against the law?

Well, they did stop making cars that were fuelled entirely by gasoline by 1980. My dream car would be a 1987 Duesenburg Model M Phaeton.

A 1976 Studebaker Commander Starliner