Barnsford Ferny is double the weight of most other bulls and has enough meat on him to make 45,000 Big Macs. Standing at an impressive 7ft in height, the bulky bovine, who is used for stud, has sired 150 calves in the last year.
Together with the Tigris, it is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia. Originating in eastern Turkey, the Euphrates flows through Syria and Iraq to join the Tigris in the Shatt al-Arab, which empties into the Persian Gulf.
Tigris: one of the main rivers in Mesopotamia. The bridge at Diyarbakir. Our word Tigris comes from an Old Persian word that can be translated as fast or arrow-like. The ancient Sumerians called the river Idigna, and in the Akkadian language that was spoken in Babylonia and Assyria, its name was Idiqlat. The Tigris is about 1,850 km long and rises in the eastern Taurus mountain range, or Armenia, as it was once called. Flowing in a generally southeasterly direction, it passed along Amida (modern DiyarbakÄ±r), where the Royal Road from Assyria to Anatolia crossed the river, and along Nineveh and AÅ¡Å¡ur.