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To celebrate, here's a piece of beaver-related trivia: The Cistercians often chose places between landscape features, e.g. where a river comes out of a wooded
by 5040 5y ago
To celebrate, here's a piece of beaver-related trivia:
The Cistercians often chose places between landscape features, e.g. where a river comes out of a wooded forest. Since they often started communities in the bottoms of valleys they had to drain excess water and reclaim land for agriculture. They often accepted donations of land deemed unusable because of drainage problems, since they were expert in the construction of waterworks. With the new bodies of water they developed fishing activity. For this reason they were dubbed the "human beavers of Europe."
- elliottkember 5y ago> The term Cistercian derives from Cistercium,[2] the Latin name for the locale of Cîteaux, near Dijon in eastern France. I really wanted the name to be derived from the word “cistern”, or vice versa. But no!
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- ignoramous 5y agoTracy Young advising startup founders to be like beavers (extolling its virtues) is one of the best presentations I've seen: https://youtu.be/-pKR212H5vQ https://youtu.be/-pKR212H5vQ