- Super Mario Bros. 3 (allthetropes.org)
Super Mario Bros. 3 is the third installment in the Super Mario Bros series by Nintendo. The final installment in the trilogy, it featured several new power-ups and features, in addition to a much larger selection of levels, enemies, and so forth (including Bowser’s kids). It was a huge commercial success, rivaling the original Super Mario game. SMB 3 was also the first Mario game to have a specific cartoon Spin-Off, in the form of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3. It also received advance publicity from an otherwise non-notable movie called The Wizard (film).
- Farallon Plate (Wikipedia)
The Farallon Plate was an ancient oceanic plate. It formed one of the three main plates of Panthalassa, alongside the Phoenix Plate and Izanagi Plate, which were connected by a triple junction. The Farallon Plate began subducting under the west coast of the North American Plate—then located in modern Utah—as Pangaea broke apart and after the formation of the Pacific Plate at the centre of the triple junction during the Early Jurassic. It is named for the Farallon Islands, which are located just west of San Francisco, California.