{"id":40627,"date":"2020-12-15T18:11:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T18:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=40627"},"modified":"2020-12-15T18:11:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T18:11:53","slug":"geography-the-tigris-and-euphrates-part-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/geography-the-tigris-and-euphrates-part-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Geography: the Tigris and Euphrates, part 0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about two of the most prominent rivers in human history: the tutor mentions the Tigris and Euphrates.<\/h2>\n<p>Some interesting facts about the Tigris and Euphrates I learned today:\n<ol><li>They both begin in Turkey.<\/li>\n<li>They flow generally southeast, roughly parallel with each other.<\/li>\n<li>They join (I had no idea!) about 200km above the Persian Gulf, at Al- Qurnah.<\/li>\n<li>The river they form at their junction is called Shatt al-Arab in Iraq, but Arvand Rud in Iran.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I plan to follow up:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.mcgill.ca\/~rwest\/wikispeedia\/wpcd\/wp\/t\/Tigris.htm\">cs.mcgill.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.mcgill.ca\/~rwest\/wikispeedia\/wpcd\/wp\/e\/Euphrates.htm\">cs.mcgill.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newworldencyclopedia.org\/entry\/Shatt_al-Arab\">newworldencyclopedia.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about two of the most prominent rivers in human history: the tutor mentions the Tigris and Euphrates. Some interesting facts about the Tigris and Euphrates I learned today: They both begin in Turkey. They flow generally southeast, roughly parallel &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/geography-the-tigris-and-euphrates-part-0\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geography: the Tigris and Euphrates, part 0<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40631,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40627\/revisions\/40631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}