In the UN the Irish delegation sat between Iraq and Israel and formed a kind of physical ' buffer ' and in the days of Aiken ( who as a minister spent a lot of time with the UN delegation ) both the Italians ( who on their turn sat in the vicinity of the Iraqi delegation ), the Irish and the Israeli claimed to be the one and only UN-delegation of New York, a city inhabited by many Irish, Jewish and Italians.

He said that, because of his support for the Treaty and Aiken's opposition, Aiken would pointedly turn his back on him whenever they came into contact.

The show's judges first saw Aiken as a nerdy type unlikely to be a typical pop idol, but after hearing him sing Heatwave's " Always and Forever " decided to advance him to the next round.

In a further attempt to obtain arms from the U. S. de Valera decided that Aiken should visit Washington.

When Aiken found that he enjoyed acting, he decided to continue.

Watson and Aiken decided to go their separate ways, and IBM began work on a project to build their own larger and more visible machine.

The selection of a site near Aiken by the United States Atomic Energy Commission to build a plant to produce fuel for thermonuclear weapons was announced on November 30, 1950.

Aiken considered the elaborate case to be a waste of resources, since computing power was in high demand during the war and the funds ($ 50, 000 or more according to Grace Hopper ) could have been used to build additional computer equipment.

Howard Aiken mentioned Babbage extensively when he convinced IBM to build the Harvard Mark I in 1937 ; when the machine was finished some hailed it as " Babbage's dream come true ".

Aiken appeared without introduction in a well-tailored designer suit and longer, darker hair with bangs, looking so different that many did not recognize him until he began to sing " Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me.

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

Finding in Mayfield's favor, Judge Aiken ruled that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as amended by the Patriot Act, " now permits the executive branch of government to conduct surveillance and searches of American citizens without satisfying the probable cause requirements of the Fourth Amendment ," which violates the Constitution of the United States.

Technically, Aiken was a minister without portfolio, as there was no Department of State corresponding to his brief, although there was an Office of the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defensive Measures.

Howard Hathaway Aiken ( March 8, 1900 – March 14, 1973 ) was a pioneer in computing, being the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer.

Unable to bring the issue of the partition of Ireland to the UN ( because of Britain's veto on the Security Council ) and because of unwillingness of other Western nations to interfere in what these Western nations saw as British affairs at that time ( the US taking a more ambiguous position ), Aiken ensured that Ireland vigorously defended the rights of small nations such as Tibet and Hungary, nations whose problems he felt Ireland could identify with and had a moral obligation to help.

While appearing in Spamalot, Aiken used his free time and celebrity to help raise funds for Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS ( BC / EFA ) during their fund drives and auctions.

In November 2004, Aiken was appointed a U. S. Fund for UNICEF National Ambassador, with a mission to help ensure that children everywhere are afforded a primary education.

In 1971, Church, Mansfield, and George Aiken convinced Cooper to help them write an amendment to end U. S. involvement in Southeast Asia altogether, but ultimately, the measure did not have the support to pass and was abandoned.

Although Flanders admired and liked Aiken, he felt that Aiken's " liberal " ideas would not help the nation ’ s economic recovery.

In eulogizing Johnston, his longtime associate, Senator George Aiken of Vermont, noted --" During his entire career in the Senate, he worked for those who needed his help most and whom it would have been easy to ignore and neglect.

The electromechanical ASCC was devised by Howard H. Aiken, built at IBM and shipped to Harvard in February 1944.

During World War II, International Business Machines Corporation ( IBM ) funded the construction of an Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator ( ASCC ) for Howard H. Aiken at Harvard University.

In the spring of 1931, the nation's attention was riveted on Aiken when Nicholas Longworth, Republican Speaker of the House, came down unexpectedly with pneumonia and died there on April 9, 1931.

On May 21, 2003, Aiken came in a close second to Ruben Studdard, who won the contest by 134, 000 votes out of more than 24, 000, 000 votes cast.

According to William and Mary Durning, the names Aiken, Akins, and Eakin came to Ireland from Scotland during the Ulster Plantation of the 17th century where they were transplanted to the Irish counties of Antrim, Monaghan, and Down respectively.

Symbolism had a significant influence on modernism, and its traces can be detected in the work of many modernist artists, including T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Conrad Aiken, Hart Crane, and William Butler Yeats in the anglophone tradition and Rubén Darío in Hispanic literature.

Aiken was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Sinn Féin candidate for Louth in 1923, continuing to be re-elected for Fianna Fáil at every election until his retirement from politics fifty years later.

However Aiken refused all requests to run and the party finally selected Erskine H. Childers to be its candidate.

In 1900, when his cousin Governor Miles B. McSweeney appointed him as a clerk for Judge Robert Aldrich of Aiken, he needed to be 21.

" Aiken said in his book, Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life, that " It's a Southern tradition to be given your first name from your grandmama's maiden name.

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

In the cover article Aiken said, " One thing I've found of people in the public eye, either you're a womanizer or you've got to be gay.

Aiken announced on July 30, 2010, that he will be touring in February and March 2011 in conjunction with PBS to support his album Tried and True and accompanying live DVD Clay Aiken: Tried and True-Live.

Aiken will be having his fifth Christmas tour " Joyful Noise 2012 " beginning in Florida this November.

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.

" If the law is made as it now stands respectable families in Aiken, Barnwell, Colleton, and Orangeburg will be denied the right to intermarry among people with whom they are now associated and identified.

was proclaimed the state song by Governor of Vermont George Aiken to be performed in the Vermont Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

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.

" Black also noted that the surname Aiken ( and its variations: Aitken, Aitkin, Aitkins, Atkin, Atkins ) have been stated by others to be derived from the names Atty (" little Atty "), and Arthur ; although Black stated that he himself disagreed with this derivation, in favour of a diminutive of Adam ( above ).

In Ireland, the surname Aiken is considered to be of Scottish and English origin, and is most common in the province of Ulster.

There were many people, most in fact, who did not want as their representative someone who would wear his best clothes if he intended to be handling pigs .” Aiken won by 7, 000 votes, having spent $ 3, 219. 50 to Flanders ’ s $ 18, 698. 45.

A better nontechnical alternative to the jeep road would be to drive as far as possible up Leidy Canyon from Fish Lake Valley, then take a graded cattle trail up the broad ridge to Perry Aiken Flat.

Roosevelt told Aiken that Ireland should be supporting Britain, prompting Aiken to ask Roosevelt to seek guarantees from the British Government that the UK would not invade Ireland.