Word: heartwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went hunting for mahogany, which turned out to be so plentiful in Accra that it is used for Coca-Cola crates. Using that primitive tool of building research, the knife, he personally verified two facts: 1) termites feast on mahogany (the reason builders had stopped using it), but. 2) heartwood mahogany, placed well up from the ground, had resisted the white ants 60 years and more. He also checked his belief that, treated with modern preservatives, mahogany would last indefinitely. Then, telling himself that "if there is no native architectural tradition, you have to start one," he set about solving...
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