Howard H. Aiken made a similar statement in 1952:

Aiken made his Broadway debut playing the role of Sir Robin in Monty Python's Spamalot in January 2008.

Aiken made it to the round of 32 before being cut from the show, but he was invited to return for the " Wild Card " round ; his performance of Elton John's " Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me " sent him on to the final 12 as the viewer's choice.

Aiken made a surprise appearance on the final show of American Idol season 5, when failed auditioner Michael Sandecki returned to the show to receive a " Golden Idol " award for Best Impersonator for his Clay Aiken-like appearance.

Debuting at number two on the Billboard chart, A Thousand Different Ways made Aiken the fourth artist ever to have his first three albums debut in the Top 5 and scan over 200, 000 in the first week.

Aiken has made many television appearances.

Aiken made fun of the controversy on the 2006 American Music Awards the next night with Tori Spelling.

In May 2009, Aiken made a guest appearance on 30 Rock in the season 3 episode ' Kidney Now !'.

On January 18, 2008, Aiken made his Broadway debut when he joined the cast of Monty Python's Spamalot for a four-month run, ending on May 4, 2008.

In 2004 Aiken made the New York Times Best Seller List, debuting at number two, with his memoir titled Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life, written with Allison Glock, and published by Random House.

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.

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.

Aiken made his stage debut in the Broadway play A Doll's House at the age of seven and his film debut playing Parker Posey's son in Henry Fool in the same year.

In a Newsweek review ( November 22, 2004 ), David Gates said: " If Aiken were an opera character, he'd be Wagner's Parsifal: the naïf ' made wise by compassion ' and armored in his own innocence.

Aiken was a guest judge on the April 8, 2009 segment of Banks show America's Next Top Model ; in what the show refers to as a teach, he worked with the remaining 8 contestants on their acting skills prior to the judging.

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

Aiken earned the distinction of being only the eighth artist to ever have his first four albums debut in the Billboard Top 5.

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.

Aiken earned the distinction of being only the eighth artist to ever have his first four albums debut in the Billboard Top 5.

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 ".

Although it did not appear on his debut CD itself, Aiken recorded and added " Solitaire " as the B-side to the single " The Way ," whose sales were faltering.

These sneak and peek provisions were struck down by judge Ann Aiken on September 26, 2007 after a Portland attorney, Brandon Mayfield, was wrongly jailed because of the searches.

He was on the editorial board, with Conrad Aiken, Eliot, Lewis and Aldous Huxley, of Chaman Lall's London literary quarterly Coterie published 1919 – 1921.

By focusing on the stark and desperate situations of his characters, Aiken appealed to the emotions of his audiences.

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.

The history of Aiken dates to its incorporation on December 19, 1835.

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.

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.

New Ellenton was formed from the citizens of Ellenton a farming town chartered in 1880 situated on the Charleston and Western Carolina Railway in Barnwell County near the Aiken County line.

The Southern Methodist Church, formed in Columbia, South Carolina, on January 14, 1939, as the continuing body of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, later established Southern Methodist College as an institution of the Church on January 26, 1956 in Greenville, moving to Aiken in 1958 and again to Orangeburg in 1961.

North Augusta is a city in Aiken County, South Carolina, United States, on the north bank of the Savannah River.

After graduation, he worked at Harvard with Dr Howard Aiken on the design of the Mark IV, Aiken's first fully electronic computer.

Bloch describes his work at the Harvard Computation Laboratory for Howard Aiken on the Mark I.

Through the USCA Graduate Office, more than 500 students each year pursue postgraduate degrees on the Aiken Campus through USCA graduate programs or the University of South Carolina's Extended Graduate Campus.

In 2011, USC Aiken began construction on a pedestrian bridge to connect the Convocation Center and its surrounding athletic facilities to the rest of the campus.

The campus is located on in Aiken, from Augusta, Georgia, and 60 miles from Columbia, South Carolina.

However, a raid on the barrack freed Aiken and two weeks later he took Dundalk barracks and captured its garrison before freeing the remaining republican prisoners there.

Francis Thomas ( Frank ) Aiken was born on 13 February 1898 at Camlough in County Armagh.

In June 1921, Aiken organised his most successful attack on the British military, when his men detonated a mine under a British troop train headed from Belfast to Dublin, killing the train guard, three cavalry soldiers and 63 of their horses.

For the remainder of the conflict, Aiken and his unit remained at large, carrying out some guerrilla attacks on Free State forces ; however, Aiken was never enthusiastic about the internecine struggle.

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.

He also introduced the so-called ' Aiken Plan ' to the United Nations in an effort to combine disarmament and peace in the Middle East, Ireland a country being on good terms with both Israel and many Arab countries.

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.