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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.
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Known officially as the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, the Mark I was a general purpose electro-mechanical computer built with IBM financing and with assistance from IBM personnel, under the direction of Harvard mathematician Howard Aiken.
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.
The version by Aiken is perhaps the best known stage adaptation, released just a few months after the novel was published.
The funeral was attended by his good friend and neighbor former senator George Aiken and former president Richard M. Nixon, Aiken died two months later.
Both Aiken County and its county seat of Aiken are named after William Aiken ( 1779 – 1831 ) who was the first president of the South Carolina Railroad Company.
In 1871, Aiken County was formed from pieces of Barnwell, Edgefield, Lexington, and Orangeburg counties.
The internecine conflict was brought to an end in May 1923 as the rule of law was re-established following the death of IRA Chief of Staff Liam Lynch, and the order by Frank Aiken to dump all arms.
Samuel Pierpont Langley ( August 22, 1834, Roxbury, Massachusetts – February 27, 1906, Aiken, South Carolina ) was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and pioneer of aviation.
James Walter Carter ( December 15, 1923 in Aiken, SC – September 21, 1994 ) was a world lightweight boxing champion.
The writer Gamel Woolsey, who coined the phrase " pornography of violence " in her memoir of the Spanish Civil War, Death's Other Kingdom ( also published under the title Malaga Burning ), was born in Aiken in 1895.
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in Chemistry, 1974 ), founding president of Vassar College Milo Parker Jewett, founder and first president of Bates College Oren B. Cheney, founder and first president of Kenyon College Philander Chase, first professor of Wabash College Caleb Mills, and former president of Union College Charles Augustus Aiken.
In the late 19th century and the first part of the 20th century, Aiken served as a winter playground for many of the country's wealthiest families such the Vanderbilts, Bostwicks, and the Whitneys.
Howard Aiken stated in reference to BARK " This is the first computer I have seen outside Harvard that actually works.
After graduation, he worked at Harvard with Dr Howard Aiken on the design of the Mark IV, Aiken's first fully electronic computer.
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.
Banksia is the restored mansion in Aiken, South Carolina that served as the first home of USC Aiken. Founded in 1961 in a historic mansion in downtown Aiken, USCA moved to its present site in 1972.
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.
A founding-member of Fianna Fáil, Aiken was first elected to Dáil Éireann in 1923 and at each subsequent election until 1973.
Aiken was also a champion of nuclear non-proliferation and he received the honour of being the first minister to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1968 in Moscow.
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.
Following a cabinet reshuffle in 2004 Ahern became Minister for Foreign Affairs, the first Louth TD to hold that position since Frank Aiken in the 1960s.
Aiken earned the distinction of being only the eighth artist to ever have his first four albums debut in the Billboard Top 5.
" 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.
Television viewers first glimpsed Aiken during the audition episodes at the beginning of American Idol's second season.
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.
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Aiken was elected as Speaker of the House in 1933, over the opposition of the Republican establishment.
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By 1965, Frank Aiken was the only de Valera veteran remaining in government, and would become the only founder-member of Fianna Fáil to survive Lemass as a member of the government and the Dáil.
He represented the Tipperary constituency from the fourth Dáil in 1923 as a " Republican ", along with Éamon de Valera and Frank Aiken.
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