The Shark Deck. Hello again, I'm Johnny Mack with five good news stories.
You know, sometimes you just need one more hug, and an eight
year old sure did. His dad was leaving for work. Isaiah ran out
the door barefoot pajamas. Dad's in the driveway. Isaiah flags him down.
Dad gets out of the truck and they shared a hug. This was captured
on the family's doorbell camera and got uploaded to TikTok. It has a masted
one point five million views. Dad captured the photo that I've got to go
to work. Hugs always hit a little different and probably have to give like
five hugs a morning to each kid. Anytime they asked for it, I
always go for it. I never turned down a hug. Isaiah said he
forgot to give me a hug and I wanted one. He was going off
for work, so I was like, I gotta go get him now.
Mom laughed and said, did he forget to give you a hug? Or
did he forget to give you a tenth hug? Hey, have you ever
been to a Turkish bath? Well? Good news. Following a thirteen year
old restoration project, a historic in Istanbul has reopened after centuries of neglect.
It's back, open out features antique and contemporary bathing and spa, facilities of
private garden, and a museum to showcase the history of the baths and others
like it. They found this thing in twenty eleven. They were doing some
digging and they found the foundations of the building, including Roman artifacts and original
cisterns built by the Byzantines which fed hot water into the baths. Sixteenth century
builder Memur Sinan was commissioned by Royal Admiral to build the baths. He is
considered the greatest architect of the Ottoman Empire and built bridges, mosques, kuranic
schools, and mausoleums across the whole Near East. Many proclaim him the equal
of Michael Angelo. He also built forty eight public and private bath houses in
places where it could be done. The wall's original beautiful eighteenth and nineteenth century
paintings were left exposed in places where they were too ruined. They've been covered
over by new material. Hey, good news. If your name is Jupiter,
thirty years from now, you might have one of the most popular names.
Pamela Redmond is a baby name expert. She and her staff looked through
hundreds of names that were given to less than twenty five babies in twenty twenty
to find the trendiest names of the future. Here are the forecasted popular names
in twenty fifty. Are you ready? Girl names? Cosima dot Iceland,
Louis maud Mavi Morgana Pax, Riviera, Snow, Vega, Wanda Willoughby,
Zeita, Alarry, Franklin, Ione, Lunaros, Pandora, Pixie, Prairie,
Vita Willoughby, and Zoe with an ax for the boys Albi Barney,
Clement, cypriy, Elma, Alesion, Florian, Hail, Helix, Hermes,
Isidore, Evo, Jupiter, Canoa, Merritts, ned Oakes, Oxford,
Rasmus, Ridger, Rourke, Tennessee Vision and Wilbur. Esha was out
for a walk in the woods and saw a white deer. She said,
the white one came so close, it was less than ten feet away.
It was so beautiful and cute. After I saw the deer, I read
the chances of the spotting one was around one in thirty thousand. Apparently,
it's really good to see one, So I'm going to buy a lottery ticket.
We never saw one before, and my dad was like, are you
sure it was a deer not a goat? There's photos, it's a deer.
The deer had what's known as lucism, a recessive genetic treat that differs
from albino animals. Lucism is the lack of pigment cells across most of the
body. White animals tend not to survive long in the wild, since you
know they're not camouflage. But the theory here is a lot of deer are
killed by hunters, and if a hunter sees a white one, they're like,
eh, I let that one go. In Good news for Stoneman Willie,
who had been lying in an open coffin in Reading, Pennsylvania for one
hundred and twenty eight years. Little was known about him other than he was
picked up while drunkenly walking the streets of Reading one night in eighteen ninety five,
and then a couple of days later for breaking into a boarding house.
A prison warden noted he was five to eleven, had had sandy brown hair
and a mustache. Generations of school children and other visitors have paid their respects
at a funeral home in Redding, which has cared for Willy's remain since he
died in custody shortly after a second arrest. He has now been given a
proper burial and a name. The funeral homes director said researchers are near certain
that Stoneman Willie was James Murphy, a New Yorker of Irish descent who was
in Reading for a convention. A granite tombstone was placed at his gravesite with
both of his names and a large informational bronze relief detailing his story will be
eventually installed too. One local said he first saw Willy in nineteen forty nine.
It was a rite of passage. Everyone had to go see Stoneman Willie.
There were some signs that Willy wasn't ready to go. As they were
getting ready to transport him, the elevator from the funeral's home second floor broke
down. Then the hearse overheated and had to be towed to a mechanic.
So then they made an arrangement for Willy to make his way through the city
and a motorcycle drawn horse. Halfway through the parade, the motorcycle died and
they had to call a backup. Hearse it rained that day, but as
they headed back to the funeral home. The sun came out and they took
it as one more sign. That's your five good news stories for today.
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