Dayvo
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If Barnes Wallace wasn't any good at marbles, there wouldn't have been the Dambusters film.
Help please - randomness of history
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If Henry's elder brother Arthur hadn't taken sick and died we would have had a King Arthur on the throne instead of Henry the eighth and a different history, Arthur's widow Catherine of Aregon married Henry the eighth after the death of his father Henry the seventh, if the two sons she gave birth too hadn't died in infancy again we might have had a different history.
classic33
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Any relation to either William or Gromit?
Nah, the incomparable Top Cat!
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
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- ...on the slake
Top 3
Hong Kong Phooey
It's The Wolf
Hair Bear Bunch
I'm not counting Tom and Jerry as they're different era. As are Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound.
Peteaud
Veteran
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- South Somerset
Scooby Doo
Wacky Races
Hong Kong Phooey.
On a music note, what would have happened if Elvis had never gone into Sun Studios?
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
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- ...on the slake
We'd still be listening to Bing Crosby and Mrs Mills.
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
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- Thumberland
Did they ever record together?
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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- Northumberland
That's the thing about history... it's easy to see how choices people made can mess you up... it's making the right decisions on the day that's the hard bit.... like why do we allow this government to keep messing our lives up, day after day after day....
classic33
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You never heard of Crosby, Mills & Nash!
Over The Hill
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It is fairly easy to pull out an event that did not happen when it could have but trickier to pull out one that did happen that then changed events.
With the one touched on above - The Battle of Britain - it seems the whole course of the war was changed by a mistake in bombing that hit civilian targets which made each side then turn to attacking civilian targets instead of airfields.
With the one touched on above - The Battle of Britain - it seems the whole course of the war was changed by a mistake in bombing that hit civilian targets which made each side then turn to attacking civilian targets instead of airfields.
CopperCyclist
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In one of the battles of the Napolean war, the English won through stubbornness and bad luck. Calvary could NOT charge and defeat infantry in a 'square' formation, as the horses refused to charge into what they saw as a solid mass, and instead veered around to the side, letting the infantry just sit there taking potshots at them, killing them like ducks in a barrel. The 'must be obeyed' rule was that Calvary couldn't be used against infantry in square formation (best to use cannon instead).
However, in one of the battles (afraid I don't recall which), the Allied Calvary (something tells me it was actually a German Calvary brigade) got carried away, lost in the moment and charged infantry in a square. What should have happened is that the entire brigade should have been wiped out pointlessly, and the outcome of the battle unknown. What actually happened is one of the lead horses took a bullet at exactly the right moment for it to stumble on at a gallop, before dropping dead and sliding on the sodden, muddy ground straight int the front line of the square, smashing a hole through the infantry allowing all the other horses to get directly into that square and annihilate it from within.
When this happened, the remaining French forces broke and were similarly routed. It was ironic that I recall being taught it was considered one of the 'finest battles for Allied Calvary' and arose from an action that really should have killed every single one of them for no enemy losses.
However, in one of the battles (afraid I don't recall which), the Allied Calvary (something tells me it was actually a German Calvary brigade) got carried away, lost in the moment and charged infantry in a square. What should have happened is that the entire brigade should have been wiped out pointlessly, and the outcome of the battle unknown. What actually happened is one of the lead horses took a bullet at exactly the right moment for it to stumble on at a gallop, before dropping dead and sliding on the sodden, muddy ground straight int the front line of the square, smashing a hole through the infantry allowing all the other horses to get directly into that square and annihilate it from within.
When this happened, the remaining French forces broke and were similarly routed. It was ironic that I recall being taught it was considered one of the 'finest battles for Allied Calvary' and arose from an action that really should have killed every single one of them for no enemy losses.
