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RE: Answer and ask

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Posted on 17-09-2008 11:39

Enron is still in business today.

"In early 2007, Enron changed its name to Enron Creditors Recovery Corporation. to reflect its status as a (largely) asset-less shell corporation. Its current goal is to liquidate all remaining assets of the company."

I was thinking Enron as well, but now I think that Nick Leeson and Barings Bank is the correct answer.

Nick Leeson is currently the CEO of Galway United.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Leeson

RE: Answer and ask

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Posted on 17-09-2008 12:24

You're on the wrong track...

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OKJones

RE: Answer and ask

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Posted on 17-09-2008 14:28

I guess you're refering to The Pennsylvania and New York Central Transportation Company, almost always called Penn Central. Don't know if you are refering to Alfred E. Perlman he was at least president, director, and chief administrator, don't know what he is doing right now but he is kind of dead.

Why would I want to end every post the same way?

Edited by OKJones on 17-09-2008 14:30

RE: Answer and ask

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Posted on 17-09-2008 14:41

Nope

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RE: Answer and ask

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Posted on 17-09-2008 15:00

If countries could go bankrupt then it could have been Argentina, but that is not the answer either

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_economic_crisis_(1999%E2%80%932002)

I was also thinking that Martha Steward was a possibility, but that was fraud.

RE: Answer and ask

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Posted on 17-09-2008 15:02

GIYF...

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RE: Answer and ask

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Posted on 17-09-2008 15:03

you kids had your chance, now daddy'o will step in and tell you how it's done.

Worldcom, Inc. went bancrupt and left a debt of $103.914.000.000 (that is 103 billions dollars!)

OKJones

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Posted on 17-09-2008 15:50

Bernard Ebbers is currently serving a 25-year prison term at Oakdale Federal Correctional Complex in Louisiana.

Why would I want to end every post the same way?

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Posted on 17-09-2008 18:07

And before he went on trial Mr. Ebbers pleaded his innocence in church and said to them that "you're not going to church with a crook", guess he had a liberal view of truth telling from the pulpit...

Funny how people are crying havoc now as this, the biggest bankruptcy of all time, didn't happen that long ago - the year was 2002.

OKJones filled the last part of the question, so now it's his turn.

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Jogvanth

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Posted on 17-09-2008 19:42

Since the new question posted by Norlander has already been answered, then I'll let it slide that Norlanders answer to my question was incorrect. At least it was not the answer that I was looking for.

The first recorded (If the Saga's of old can be deemed thus) Christian church built in the Americas, was built by Leifr Eiríksson, the son of Eirikur (hin) reyði nearly 500 years before Norlanders first mentioned church.

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OKJones

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Posted on 18-09-2008 12:04

Who is this?

Why would I want to end every post the same way?
OKJones attached the following image:

RE: Answer and ask

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Posted on 18-09-2008 14:11

I am wondering if this picture has anything to do with Gabriela Sabatini?

Her highest tennis ranking was a mere 3rd in 1991. She has 12 titles to her belt, including titles from the four grand slams, albeit winning in different years.

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Posted on 18-09-2008 15:49

Na but you're close, if you check the listing of people ranked #1 in the World by WTA at various points in the 90's you'll find her name quickly

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Posted on 19-09-2008 10:37

Arantxa Sanchez Vicario

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arantxa_S%C3%A1nchez_Vicario

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Posted on 19-09-2008 10:50

Who is this ?

fjallsbak attached the following image:

RE: Answer and ask

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Posted on 19-09-2008 22:48

At first, I had the impression it was some sort of trick-question, but after some searching, I figured this much out:

- The uniform is a SS Waffen Hauptsturmfí¼hrer in the Panzer division.
- It is not Erwin Rommel.

Could be Heinz Macher, which could my only qualified guess.

Someone pick up the thread from here...

RE: Answer and ask

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Posted on 21-09-2008 09:42

Ace

Laluu

RE: Answer and ask

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Posted on 21-09-2008 10:46

Aha!
Michael Wittman

Michael Wittmann (April 22, 1914 - August 8, 1944) was a German SS-Hauptsturmfí¼hrer during World War II. Wittman's crews (chiefly gunner Balthasar "Bobby" Woll, also a Knight's Cross holder) are credited with the confirmed destruction of 138 tanks and 132 anti-tank guns, along with an unknown number of other armoured vehicles. Together with Johannes Bí¶lter, Ernst Barkmann, Otto Carius and Kurt Knispel (the top scoring German panzer ace of the war with 168 confirmed tank kills), he is considered to be one of the greatest tank commanders in history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Wittmann

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