The hotel claims that William Faulkner wrote his Nobel Prize acceptance speech there in 1950.

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It's not often that we get this many handwritten documents - the immediacy that we have, something where King would jot a note to himself or write an outline for a sermon or a speech, write a draft of a speech as important as the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

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Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964, when King wrote his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech on Bimini.

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The online archive contains personal notes, telegrams to John F Kennedy and a handwritten draft of King's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

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And just in case his message of martial resolve was failing to get through, he used his acceptance speech for his Nobel Peace Prize last December to explain to some startled Scandinavian peaceniks why some wars, such as the one against al-Qaeda, were just and necessary.

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That context was reflected in Mr. Obama's acceptance speech for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, after he authorized an escalation of the U.S. war in Afghanistan.

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In June, Suu Kyi was finally able to deliver her acceptance speech for her 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, part of the same European tour in which she became the first women other than the Queen to address both houses of the British parliament.

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On Saturday, Suu Kyi finally gave her Nobel acceptance speech in Norway, more than two decades after she won the peace prize.

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When Robert A. Mundell won his Nobel Prize in economics in 1999, he spoke of the causes of the Great Depression in his acceptance speech.

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