Jeremy Brett and the Price of Being Holmes WHEN WRITING my two previous posts — 'The Timeless Detective' and 'The Melancholy Moor' — I was prompted to reflect on the actor who, for me, epitomised perfectly the precision and intensity of the Sherlock Holmes character. His was a performance that redefined the role for my …
On this Day STANISLAV PETROV was born on September 7, 1939, just days after the outbreak of World War II—a world already teetering on the edge of disaster. Decades later, this modest, unassuming man would make a single, split-second decision, one that is widely acknowledged to have prevented global nuclear catastrophe. (Right) Stanislav Petrov, born …
RAVEN MOON 