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light's flash arriving before sound's confession, a sky confessing its crimes out of order
means A single discharge of lightning together with its crack of thunder, especially imagined as a hurled missile striking from the sky.
from A plain compound of "thunder" and "bolt." The "bolt" part originally meant an arrow or crossbow quarrel — so a thunderbolt is literally the sky's arrow. The word goes back to Old English ("thunor" gave us Thursday, Thor's day), and the image of a god flinging a bolt is ancient: Zeus and Jupiter both wielded one, which is why we still speak of being "struck" by sudden love or sudden news.
- hotter than sun
- Lightning reaches five times the sun's surface temperature
- speed
- Bolts travel near 270,000 miles per hour
- zeus brand
- His chosen weapon, forged by Cyclopes underground
- fulgurite
- Strikes fuse sand into glassy hollow tubes
- the count
- Earth sees roughly eight million strikes daily
p-47 thunderbolt — wwii fighter aircraft produced by republic aviation, 15,683 built 1942-1945
thunderbolt prison — maximum security penitentiary in streatham, london, operational since 1969
thunderbolt georgia — unincorporated community in chatham county, georgia, usa, established as a railway stop in 1889