Transforming 21st-century Leader Competencies by Developing Mindfulness

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Reconstruction of selected paleoenvironmental components of medieval Toruń, Poland, and its close suburbs

“…Their occurrence around the medieval town correlates with the location of the oldest brickworks, which supplied bricks for the town's construction (i.a. Fedorowicz, 1993;Gąsiorowska & Gąsiorowski, 1963;Mikulski, 1998).…”

“…To the east of the Old Town ran another (nameless) watercourse, carrying excess water from the moat. The courses of these two streams suggest that they may have originally formed a single watercourse flowing into the Vistula to the east of the medieval town (Gąsiorowska & Gąsiorowski, 1963;Molewski, 2016;Tomczak, 1971b). The third and longest watercourse, flowing to the east of the Small Stream the so-called Toruń Stream (Ger.…”

“…Grosse Bache)had its original source in the wetlands to the north of the medieval town, and probably issued into the Vistula to the east of the Teutonic castle. Based on thirteenth-century sources, it is assumed that this primary (original) watercourse was the Postolsk (Gąsiorowska & Gąsiorowski, 1963). In the second half of the thirteenth century it was fedvia a manmade ditchby the waters of another watercourse known as the Wieldządz Stream (Pol.…”