References and associations:
Portrait of Thomas Paine, born February 9, 1737 – June 8, 1809.
The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) 1865 - 1886. In 1865, Edouard de Laboulaye proposed that a statue representing liberty be built for the United States.
"The Emperor's New Clothes" by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen.
"The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even" by Marcel Duchamp.
"The Bride!" is a 2026 American Gothic romance film directed and written by Maggie Gyllenhaal.
You stand in a shower and be struck by lightning.
Zeus is a sky and thunder god.
"Danaë and the Shower of Gold"
James Joyce's Finnegans Wake. Thunderword:
bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner-
ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk.
Translated to, by McHugh: J kaminari: thunder; Hin karak: thunder; Gr brontaô: I thunder; F tonnerre: thunder; It tuono: thunder; Sw åska: thunder; I tórnach: thunder; Port trovão: thunder; Old Rum tun: thunder; Da todenen: the thunder.
"Thunderstruck" is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC.