Also,as electric power came to rural America, there was a school of thought that rectangular barns were easier to wire for electricity.

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The building of buildings in the shape of what the Greeks called a megaron, a rectangular center, which has a hearth in it, a front porch, and a back porch which will be the style in which Greek temples are built in the historical period.

建筑物呈现出希腊人所称的,中央大厅的形状,一个矩形的大厅,有一个壁炉在中间,一个前走廊,和一个后走廊,具有古希腊神庙的风格,修建于有史料记载的时期

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Going from a rectangular to a circular floor while keeping the perimeter fixed adds only 34% to the space.

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It projects a nonlethal invisible microwave beam from a rectangular dish atop a Humvee.

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Avoiding my reflections as well as I could, for these mirrors showed only a tired man with a look of sorrow in his eyes, I chose a rectangular mirror with a cherrywood frame.

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