* Recent celebrity deaths: Alexander Lebed – Russian General who ran for the presidency against Boris Yeltsin ; Ruth Handler – inventor of the Barbie Doll

* Recent celebrity deaths: Former mob boss John " Teflon Don " Gotti dies of cancer.

* Recent celebrity deaths: Columnist Ann Landers dies of myeloma at age 83.

* Recent celebrity deaths: In the Netherlands, controversial right wing politician Pim Fortuyn is shot dead when leaving a radio studio, nine days before the general election for the lower house of parliament.

* Recent celebrity deaths: Stephen Jay Gould dies.

* Recent ( discovery of ) celebrity deaths: Police find the remains of missing intern Chandra Levy in a park in Washington, DC.

* Recent celebrity deaths: Golfer Sam Snead dies at 89.

* Recent celebrity deaths: Ted Williams, baseball player, aged 83.

* Recent celebrity deaths: Rod Steiger, American actor, aged 77.

* Recent celebrity deaths: Chaim Potok, novelist dies of cancer at age 73

* Recent celebrity deaths: Chick Hearn, pro-basketball announcer dies at the age of 85.

* Recent celebrity deaths: Edsger Dijkstra, one of the giants of the field of computer science, has died.

* Recent celebrity deaths: Enos Slaughter, Baseball Hall of Famer, dies at 86 from the disease non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

* Recent celebrity deaths: Larry Rivers, American painter, dies at 78.

* Recent celebrity deaths: Al Ayyam reports that international terrorist Abu Nidal was found dead of apparent suicide.

* Recent celebrity deaths: Baseball Hall of Fame player Hoyt Wilhelm dies.

* Recent celebrity deaths: Lionel Hampton, jazz vibraphone master, dies.

* Recent celebrity deaths: Athlete Bob Hayes dies.

* Recent celebrity deaths: Milton Berle, Dudley Moore, and Billy Wilder die.

* Recent celebrity deaths: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother, dies.

Recent examples ( 2004 – 2005 ) were a seminar on writing sitcoms, a networking evening for TV soap writers, a panel discussion on marketing theatre plays, a celebrity event at the Edinburgh Book Festival and a series of lectures on forensic science aimed at TV series writers.

Recent celebrity cover stars include actor Sir Ian McKellen, X Factor winner Matt Cardle, and American band Scissor Sisters.

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Recent efforts that have received such recognition include a series of stories that resulted in the resignation and criminal conviction of the state House of Delegates education chairman, a series on the environmental effects of mountaintop removal coal mining, a series on the state's " failed " attempts to deal with its residents suffering from mental illness, and a series on the deaths nationwide from the widespread use of methadone.

Recent media reports indicate increasing concern among stakeholders, as mass flamingo migrations and deaths could spell doom to the tourism industry.

“ In Search of Counter-Revolutionary Women .” The French Revolution: Recent debates and New Controversies.

* Kaiser, Thomas E. " This Strange Offspring of Philosophie: Recent Historiographical Problems in Relating the Enlightenment to the French Revolution.

Recent excavations and surveys in progress are conducted by American, Belgian, Danish, Dutch, French, German and Italian teams of archaeologists, with international participants, in cooperation with the Syrian Department of Antiquities.

Recent scholarship has noted that in his later work, Muybridge was influenced by the French photographer Étienne-Jules Marey.

Recent forms are in English and French.

Recent French Revolutionary Historiography ," French Historical Studies, Volume 23, Number 1, Winter 2000, pp. 163 – 196 in Project MUSE

The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies ( 2005 ) excerpt and text search

Recent historiography of the salons has been dominated by Jürgen Habermas ' work, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere ( triggered largely by its translation into French, in 1978, and then English, in 1989 ), which argued that the salons were of great historical importance.

Recent enhancements to the BookmarkSync client software include support for Unicode, fast search and locate, local backup and restore functions, local site validation, social bookmark browsing and multiple language support ( German, French, Danish, Dutch, Czech and Spanish ).

Recent directors have done much to enhance its image, particularly in regard to 20th century French music.

Recent commissions have included a concerto from the American composer Keith Gates, “ Oiseau Soleil ” for flute and piano by the French composer Jean Sichler, “ The Moon Dances ” by the British composer Cecilia McDowall, “ Sonata ” by British composer Brian Lock and “ Octagon ” by British composer Ian Finney.

In 1927, he participated in the French mission of Captain Augiéras to the southern Sahara that discovered the remains of “ Asselar Man ”, an extinct human believed to belong to the Holocene or Recent Epoch.

Recent speakers include United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde and Turkish President Abdullah Gul.

Recent school trips abroad have included Paris, Barcelona, Berlin, Rome, skiing in the French and Italian Alps, charitable work in South Africa and a football tour of Texas, USA.

Recent artistic projects concentrating on the Cathar element in Provençal and troubador art include commercial recording projects by Thomas Binkley, electric hurdy-gurdy artist Valentin Clastrier and his CD Heresie dedicated to the church at Cathars, La Nef, and Jordi Savall.

Recent prominent musicians from Terre Haute include Dave Frey, lead singer of the Dove Award-winning band Sidewalk Prophets, and the band Yearbook Committee, a 2011 and 2012 showcasing artist at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas.

Recent interviews have included subjects as diverse as the actor / director George Clooney, artist Richard Prince and British singer Leona Lewis.

Recent collaborations include Lamb playing saxophone on Peter Ashby's " Disturbances in the ether " album, working with up and coming urban hip hop artist Tor Cesay, collaborating with Keith Levene ( ex-Public Image Ltd .,), being covered by Swiss chanteuse Hilda Garman and recording with Wavis O ' Shave

Recent guests have included SNL's Fred Armisen, John Mulaney, Marika Sawyer, and Simon Rich ; comedy writer Mike Sacks, and comic artist Kazu Kibuishi.

Recent speakers have included Gloria Steinem ( activist and founder Ms. magazine ), Jill Bolte Taylor ( neuroanatomist and author My Stroke of Insight ), Kip Fulbeck ( artist, poet, filmmaker ), Penny Pritzker ' 77 ( Founder, Classic Residence by Hyatt ; National Finance Chair for the Obama presidential campaign ), Al Gore ( Nobel Laureate and former Vice President ), Marissa Mayer ( Vice President, Google ), Thomas L. Friedman ( author, The World is Flat, and Greg Mortensen ( author, Three Cups of Tea ).

Recent releases include a DVD single-the multi-award winning black and white animated short ‘ Who I Am And What I Want ’ by cult artist David Shrigley and director Chris Shepherd, Slinky Pictures.

Recent artworks of note include Evelin Stermitz ’ s World of Female Avatars in which the artist has collected quotes and images from women over the world and displayed them in an interactive browser based format, and Regina Pinto ’ s Many Faces of Eve.