It appeared in The Collected Stories of Conrad Aiken in 1934, and since then has been widely anthologized.

These are located mostly in and around Los Angeles, with a few in the Bay area South Carolina also has a hydrogen freeway project, and the first two hydrogen fueling stations opened in 2009 in Aiken and Columbia, South Carolina.

The Aiken station has a current capacity of 80 kg.

Aiken has been accused by unionists of ethnic cleansing of Protestants from parts of South Armagh, Newry, and other parts of the north, in particular the killing of seven Protestant civilians in Altnaveigh in June 1922.

Today the extensive property owned by Frank Aiken in the Lamb's Cross area of County Dublin ( lying between Sandyford and Stepaside ) has been transformed into the housing estate called Aiken's Village.

In the years following his American Idol appearance, Aiken has launched eleven tours, authored a New York Times best-selling book Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life with Allison Glock, and was the executive producer for a 2004 televised Christmas special, A Clay Aiken Christmas and his televised live concert special in 2010 on PBS Tried & True Live !.

Aiken has talked about having had a little liposuction under his chin while undergoing treatment for temporomandibular joint disorder.

Though officially, Aiken was the show's " first runner-up ," he has since gone on to be the second season's best-selling star.

Aiken has made many television appearances.

After hosting and performing in the American Idol Christmas special in 2003, Aiken has had several subsequent hosting jobs.

Aiken has sung a few CCM songs at his pop concerts, and has made Christmas albums, Christmas television specials and performances, and Christmas tours essential elements of his career.

Aiken has donated his time and his voice to multiple benefit events and concerts, including the 2004 Rosalynn Carter Benefit, the America's Promise Benefit, and Heather Headley's Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS benefit, " Home ," where he sang a duet with Headley.

Aiken has been a dedicated advocate for education and for children's causes.

On August 5, 2009, in an open letter from the founders, Clay Aiken and Diane Bubel stated " As we realized the impact the Foundation has already made, it became apparent that even bigger accomplishments could be on the horizon.

The only substantive minster without portfolio has been Frank Aiken, the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defensive Measures during World War II.

He has been married four times: to Kathryn Baker in 1964, to Marilyn Aiken in 1975, to Jill Donahue in 1981, and to Malgosia Tomassi around 1986.

Since then, Aiken has mined the Sedaka songbook again, recording a cover of probably Sedaka's best-known song, " Breaking Up Is Hard to Do ," on the " deluxe version " of his 2010 CD release, Tried and True.

Owen Baker ( Liam Aiken ) is a 12-year-old who has been working as the neighborhood dog-walker so he can earn the privilege of getting a dog of his own.

Liam Padraic Aiken ( born January 7, 1990 ) is an American actor who has starred in a number of films, such as Stepmom and Good Boy !.

The name has several possible origins, although it is generally considered to be a variant of Aikens, which is considered to be a patronymic form of the name Aiken.

In Ireland, the surname Aiken has also been used as an Anglicised form of an Irish language surname.

Key examples of this from American Idol include Clay Aiken ( second place, season 2 ) and Chris Daughtry ( fourth place, season 5, through his band Daughtry ), who have each outsold all American Idol winners except Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood ; Jennifer Hudson ( seventh place, season 3 ), who would later win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ; and William Hung, who turned his off-key season 3 audition into a recording career and has outsold some finalists.

The Aiken Steeplechase Association, founded in 1930, hosts the Imperial Cup each March and the Holiday Cup in October, both of which are steeplechase races sanctioned by the National Steeplechase Association.

The Southside is the southern area of the city of Aiken, which strongly increased in development after the construction of the Savannah River Site.

While Aiken was at the UN, Lemass played a major role in pressing for Ireland's membership of the EEC which in many ways became the chief foreign policy consideration during the 1960s.

Stunts such as withdrawing the Irish Army's band from playing at diplomatic functions which the Governor-General attended, or in one notorious case the sight of O ' Kelly and Defence Minister Frank Aiken storming out of a diplomatic function at the French Legation when McNeill, the guest of honour, had arrived, damaged O ' Kelly's reputation and image, particularly when the campaign backfired.

A project conceived by Harvard University's Dr. Howard Aiken, the Mark I was built by IBM engineers in Endicott, N. Y. A steel frame long and eight feet high held the calculator, which consisted of an interlocking panel of small gears, counters, switches and control circuits, all only a few inches in depth.

Mr. Chris Sharpe served as the first Director of the University of South Carolina Aiken Center, which was housed in Banksia, a renovated mansion in the City of Aiken.

The most important of these new roads connected a newly laid down Market Square, which still survives, with a linen and cambric factory at its eastern end, adjacent to what was once an army cavalry and artillery barracks ( now Aiken Military Barracks ).

Under Ireland ’ s policy of promoting the primacy of international law and reducing global tension at the height of the Cold War, Aiken promoted the idea of areas of law, which he believed would free the most tense regions around the world from the threat of nuclear war.

Howard Aiken had developed the Harvard Mark I, one of the first large-scale digital computers, while Wassily Leontief was an economist who was developing the input-output model of economic analysis, work for which he would later receive the Nobel prize.

On October 14, 2003, Aiken released his first solo album, Measure of a Man, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and was, with 613, 000 copies sold in its first week, the highest-selling debut for a solo artist in 10 years, and to date the highest debut of any Idol.

On November 16, 2004, Aiken released a holiday album titled Merry Christmas with Love, which set a new record for fastest-selling holiday album in the Soundscan era ( since 1991 ).

The album contains ten cover songs and four new songs, one of which Aiken co-wrote.

According to Billboard, Aiken ’ s 2008 album “ On My Way Here ” sold just 159, 000 copies in the U. S., compared to his 2003 debut album, “ Measure of a Man ,” which sold 2. 78 million copies ".

Eder joined Aiken on stage for their duet of " Crying ", which they recorded for his album.

In November 2004, Aiken launched his third tour of the year, which revolved around a Christmas theme.

The 2005 Joyful Noise tour featured a series of vignettes, written by Aiken, which told the story of an older woman who had lost the Christmas spirit and a young boy who helps her find it again.

Aiken was supported by local orchestras, which also opened the concerts with a program of seasonal music.

Three days into the tour, Aiken and a woman were involved in an in-flight altercation in which she allegedly shoved him.

He was one of the celebrity readers for the Arthur Celebrity Audiobook ( Stories for Heroes Series ), which benefits the Bubel / Aiken Foundation ( now the National Inclusion Project ) and other charities, and served as spokesperson for the series.

His interest in autism issues led him, along with Diane Bubel ( whose son Michael is diagnosed with autism and was tutored by Aiken ), to found the National Inclusion Project ( formerly the Bubel / Aiken Foundation ), which supports the integration of children with disabilities into the life environment of their non-disabled peers.

Bell, Aiken is " the Scottish form of the English name Atkin, which comes from Adkin, a pet form of Adam.