He wrote for and performed with the Walter White gospel choir and the John Motley Singers.

In 1861, just after outbreak of the American Civil War, Motley wrote two letters to The Times defending the Federal position, and these letters, afterwards reprinted as a pamphlet entitled Causes of the Civil War in America, made a favourable impression on President Lincoln.

During the 1970s, he wrote the series The Ghosts of Motley Hall ( 1976 – 78 ), Dick Turpin ( 1979 – 82 ), parts of the series The Famous Five and Doctor Snuggles and seventeen episodes of The Adventures of Black Beauty for ITV companies ; and Cloudburst, The Boy from Space and The King's Dragon as part of BBC's Look and Read ( 1967 – 2004 ) programme for schools, some episodes of which he also presented.

Carpenter wrote novelisations of many of the early series he created: Catweazle, Cloudburst, The Ghosts of Motley Hall, Smuggler, Robin of Sherwood ( two books ), and two books of Dick Turpin.

Motley wrote to Brown asking for a tryout, but Brown declined, saying he already had all the fullbacks he needed.

In his autobiography, Brown said the play came about by accident in 1946 when Graham botched a play and improvised by making a late handoff to Marion Motley, who ran past the onrushing defenders for a large gain.

After ending his playing career for good, Motley asked Brown about a coaching job with the team.

The Motley Fool gained renown for its early recommendations of stocks, such as America Online ( AOL ) and Amazon. com, and was featured in a cover story for Fortune magazine ( 1996 ) about the emergence of online interactive discussion as a new form of investment research.

On October 4, 1993, a passer-by expressed concern to Opelika police Sergeant Roger Motley about Lyon's son, who was in a parked car with her common law husband, George Sibley, and looked as though he wanted help.

* In the end of Act 2 Chapter 3, Satterthwaite tells Sir Charles Cartwright that it's not the first time that he's investigating the crimes and he's just started to tell about the events of the story At the " Bells and Motley " when Sir Charles interrupts him and starts to tell his own story.

In 1993, he and his older brother David Gardner started The Motley Fool as a vehicle for teaching people about saving and investment.

Later in life, Motley worked for the U. S. postal service in Cleveland, HM Miller Construction Suffield, Ohio, the Ohio Lottery and for the Ohio Department of Youth Services in Akron.

The facility was donated to the university by alumnus John Motley Morehead III who invested over $ 3 million in the facility.

In 2011, Dish Network spent over $ 3 billion dollars in acquisitions of companies in bankruptcy, which Motley Fool's Anders Bylund described as " a veritable buying rampage in the bargain bin.

In 1927-1928, Dr. Albert Carroll Traweek, Sr., an investor in the Motley Railroad, established the Traweek Hospital, which was turned over to the county in 1991 and became the Motley County Historical Museum.

A section of Motley County called " Whiteflat " was named for the tall white needlegrass which covered the flat prairie land there.

The reception of Motley's work in The Netherlands itself was not wholly favorable, especially as Motley described the Dutch struggle for independence in a flattering light, which caused some to argue he was biased against their opponents.

Partly owing to this essay, Motley was appointed United States minister to the Austrian Empire in 1861, a position which he filled with distinction, working with other American diplomats such as John Bigelow and Charles Francis Adams to help prevent European intervention on the side of the Confederacy in the American Civil War.

The AAFC, which formed in 1946, was more proactive in signing black players ; in 1946, the Cleveland Browns signed Marion Motley and Bill Willis, and by the time the AAFC merged with the NFL in 1950, six of the league's eight teams had signed black players, most by the league's second season in 1947.

To that end he endowed the John Motley Morehead Foundation, which each year awards generous scholarships ( for undergraduate work ) and fellowships ( for the graduate and professional schools ) to applicants chosen through an extensive and competitive screening process.

In 1876, at the age of seventy, Holmes published a biography of John Lothrop Motley, which was an extension of an earlier sketch he had written for the Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings.

As The Motley Fool closed that site down and focused on finance, Surowiecki made the switch over to become a finance writer, which he did over the succeeding three years, including being assigned to write the Fool's column on Slate from 1997 – 2000.

Between 1976 and 1978 he appeared in the children's series The Ghosts of Motley Hall, in which he played Mr Gudgin, an estate agent who did not want to see the Hall fall into the wrong hands.

He had more likeable roles in two British children's TV series: The Ghosts of Motley Hall, which ran from 1976 to 1978 on ITV ( produced by Granada Television ), and as ' Slugger ' in Follyfoot, which ran from 1971 to 1973, also on ITV ( produced by Yorkshire Television ).

The best-known of these is The Motley Fool Investment Guide, which in 2003 was called the "# 1 All-Time Classic " by investment club members of the NAIC.

In September 2006, the company unveiled its newest offering, Motley Fool CAPS, a service which monitors and ranks the most successful stock pickers amongst its members.

In a 2006 article, Seth Jayson of The Motley Fool compared the wording in a Ford advertisement myFord Owner Magazine to this episode, writing: " the unholiest of unholies is the writing, which is so thick with absurd adspeak, you'd think it was written by the crew at The Onion or The Simpsons – especially that episode where Krusty starts shilling for the Canyonero.

The Motley Fool have recently launched an online newsletter called " Supernova " which chooses from David Gardner's 150 or so stock picks and puts them into two portfolios: " Odyssey " for aggressive investors.

He is the author of The Motley Fool Hidden Gems newsletter, which aims to find the most promising small public companies for investment.

The Hulbert Digest, a watchdog for the financial newsletter industry, scores both this letter and The Motley Fool Stock Advisor ( a letter in which he competes with his brother, David ) with extremely high marks.

At Göttingen, Bismarck became friends with the American student John Lothrop Motley.

After this, Motley and Bismarck went study the civil law together at Frederick William University, Berlin.

Fullback Marion Motley and nose tackle Bill Willis, two of the earliest African-Americans to play professional football, also joined the team in 1946.

Former MLB players and coaches have also coached or managed in the Northern League including Terry Bevington, " Dirty " Al Gallagher, Jackie Hernández, Danny Jackson, Maury Wills, Tim Johnson, Ron Kittle, Hal Lanier, Darryl Motley, Matt Nokes, and Wayne Terwilliger.

The first courthouse, also built in 1891, later burned, but the jail remained a symbol of Motley County's frontier heritage.

North Carolina Governor John Motley Morehead, for whom the city of Morehead City is named was also a principal member of the Shepard Point Land Company investment group.

The anonymously published The Blockheads ( 1776 ) and The Motley Assembly ( 1779 ) are also attributed to her.

The story also introduces her chief antagonists: the sorcerer known as Christopher Carrion, his grandmother Mater Motley, and the industrialist Rojo Pixler, all of whom seek to dominate the Abarat.

The National Student Media Awards also caters for other student media, such as radio shows, short films, and student magazine ( such as University College Cork's Motley Magazine.

Schopp documents that a locomotive was sold to the Motley County Railroad in 1915, and speculates that this may also have been the same single locomotive.

JL Motley acknowledges his indebtedness to Groen's Archives in the preface to his Rise of the Dutch Republic, at a time when the American historian had not yet made the acquaintance of King William's archivist, and also bore emphatic testimony to Groen's worth as a writer of history in the correspondence published after his death.

The company would, however, suffer a minor financial blow during the year after Motley Flint, the longtime banker for the studio, and by now also a close friend of the Warners, was murdered by an angry investor.

He was selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1968, the same year as Marion Motley, who was also born on June 5th.

Motley was also one of the first African-Americans to play the professional game in the modern era.

Motley also had a 69-yard rushing and 33-yard receiving touchdowns in the game.

Motley also signed on to coach an all-girl professional football team called the Cleveland Dare Devils in 1967.

Constance Baker Motley was also an attorney for NAACP: it was a rarity to have two women attorneys leading such a high-profile case.

He is also the inventor of Motley Fool CAPS, a site that features the community intelligence of 65, 000 + ranked stock pickers drawn mainly from The Motley Fool Community.

He also appeared in: Diamond Crack Diamond, The Onedin Line ( BBC ), Survivors ( BBC ), Scotch on the Rocks, Black Beauty ( London Weekend / ITV ), Minder ( ITV ), The Ghosts of Motley Hall ( Granada / ITV ), Juliet Bravo ( BBC ), Casualty ( BBC ), The Mourning Brooch, Casting the Runes and McPhee the Mother and Me.

The character of the magazine was largely shaped by founding editor Isolde Motley and later Jeffrey Schaire, who attempted to bring to the magazine a mixture of high art and popular culture, with articles not just on major artists, but also on pinball machines and inexpensive collectibles, items more accessible for a wider audience.