Byline: Ian Garrick Mason At the hour of his execution, Sir Walter Raleigh ran his thumb along the blade of the headman's ax. "This is a sharp medicine but it is a physician for all diseases," he quipped to the assembled crowd....

Byline: Wim Oude Weernink The original Bentley Motors lasted just 12 years before it filed for bankruptcy in June 1931. But Walter Owen Bentley's passion for engineering and sportsmanship has remained the core characteristic of the brand. That is why the company...