Astronomical Anagrams
Tool of reflection or refraction:
ECO PESTLE
Telescope
Many a '90s mom thought all these alliterative stuffed animals would increase in value & pay for her kid's college education
Beanie Babies
It's just a pterm for a ptremendous pterosaur
pterodactyl
On June 10, 1692 Bridget Bishop was hanged on Gallows Hill in this Mass. place; Bridget would be far from the last
Salem
Proverbial place "where the heart is"
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a railroad station = this D.I.Y. chain (you must build the response)
Home Depot
In 1054 one happened in Taurus:
RAVEN SOUP
supernova
Some kids in the '90s really loved this guy's style, seen here on Mark McGrath; not icy caps, but...
frosted tips
Lambeth or Staten Island, for example
borough
400 people danced uncontrollably for days, some until death, in 1518's dancing plague in Strasbourg in this country
France
Adobe's web content-delivering "player" + another term for the mafia = a group that performs & then disperses quickly
Flash Mob
On the spectrum it shows the universe expanding: HE DRIFTS
red shift
Games for this alphanumeric console included '90s classics like "GoldenEye" & "Banjo-Kazooie"
The N64
Kim Kardashian's 4th kid, or a sacred song
Psalm
On the Daily News' Oct. 31, 1938 front page: "Fake radio 'war' stirs terror through U.S.", with a picture of this actor
Orson Welles
14-year Texas governor Perry
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to spin over & over across a surface = this meme we will never give up
Rickroll
The solar surface as it looks to us:
PROPHET SHOE
photosphere
Every "Jeopardy!" staff member who was a kid in the '90s still keeps one of these digital pets from Bandai
Tamagotchi
The OED's first citation for this surfing slang for a challenging wave goes back to 1977
gnarly
In 1950 this senator said 205 Communists worked in the state department but later testifying in the Senate, couldn't document one
McCarthy
Proverbially patient person
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Monsieur Cézanne = this state capital
Saint Paul
A star's brightness:
MUTINY OILS
luminosity
Contestants of a certain age may recall this book series by K.A. Applegate with teens shapeshifting into beasts
Animorphs
This word with a rare silent "Q" can mean a resinous varnish
lacquer
In 1483 he was made Grand Inquisitor for Castile & León & by 1498, an estimated 2,000 people had been burned at the stake
Torquemada
One of Santa's reindeer
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a festive social gathering = this doomed group of American pioneers
the Donner Party