that would turn into a pretty big POD as far as media is concerned because the loss of Oswald to Universal (i think?) not only prompted the creation of Mickey but, further down the line, made Walt extremely protective of his intellectual properties and led him to push for the establishment of copyright law
Very Minor PODs
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Small POD, big impact: what if 0.02% more Florida natives voted for Al Gore in the 2000 election? Does this mean Al Gore won't be available to voice act in Futurama's Crime's Of The Hot?
Edward, Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII, meets an upper-class girl whom he fancies at University. The girl plans to sail, with family, to New York on the Titanic, to visit American high society. The Prince of Wales decides that he must sail on the boat, officially to show confidence in British engineering and visit New York to strengthen ties with the Americans. Instead, he is indisposed with the girl at the moment the ship hits the iceberg.
No Brady Bill.
He actually might be forced onto a lifeboat, as people with skills with yatches or boats were needed. I rememeber reading about one guy who had a skill who was raising his hand, only for a companion of his to lower it and say they should go together. Kinda a dick move, keeping a friend from escaping death. He lived, but still a dick move.
Amy Klobuchar accidentally makes a bad hotdish for the Minnesota Congressional Delegation Hotdish Competition and a few people get sick. No lasting damage is done, except to her pride.
In 1847, Delaware nearly passed a gradual emancipation bill that would have freed all slaves born after 1850. It passed the State House, but failed the State Senate by one vote.
What if the bill did pass the State Senate and become law? I think it'd be a minor POD since Delaware is/was a small state, most of the black population was already free anyway, and relatively few people would have been freed by the start of the Civil War. But what sort of changes would have happened, both in Delaware and the rest of the country?
What if the bill did pass the State Senate and become law? I think it'd be a minor POD since Delaware is/was a small state, most of the black population was already free anyway, and relatively few people would have been freed by the start of the Civil War. But what sort of changes would have happened, both in Delaware and the rest of the country?
Craig McLean meets Chris Martin
His band Coldplay has sold 17 million albums, he's married to one of Hollywood's hottest stars and he hangs out with the musicians he hailed as heroes when he was a kid. So how did singer Chris Martin, an insecure, self-confessed nerd, hit the bigtime? Craig McLean joins the band on the road to...
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What if Dick Cheney had listened to Ok Computer?