Welcome to the history tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here's your 30-second summary.

Wangari Matai understood the vital connections between living things and the earth of local community and the wider world.

It is true that many trees make a mighty forest.

And when Garry Matai, through her Green Belt movement,

made it clear to us all that the most important change for the greater good

is one that each individual makes right in their own backyard,

a philosophy which would later earn her the Nobel Peace Prize. The end.

Let's talk about Wangari Matai. At first, let's drop her into history. In 1977, the epic

miniseries Ruth's first aired, and it earned its author, Alex Haley, a Pulitzer

Prize.

President Jimmy Carter signed a treaty with Panama that would end U.S. control of the canal

in 1999 and guaranteed neutrality of the canal.

The first five of the 13 rings of Uranus were first discovered by researchers at Cornell

University. The largest lobster was caught off of Nova Scotia weighing in at 44.4 pounds. The TV shows Fantasy

Island and Love Boat and the coneheads of Saturday Night Live, as well as the original Star Wars movie, all premiered.

The TV series Mary Tyler Moore Show ended.

Carrie Washington, Shakira, Liv Tyler, John Oliver, and Emmanuel Macron were all born.

Fannie Lou Hamer, Alice Paul, and Maria Callis all died.

And in 1977, with the planting of seven trees,

Wangari Matai also planted the seeds of change. Wangari Mutha was born on April 1st,

1940, in the village of Ihita, Kenya, the third of the six children of Mutha Njugi and Wangiri Kibichot, who history will know as

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