It is this intellectual quality which gives it so large a place in universal history] Using the word in a somewhat broader sense, we may define the Renaissance as the reentrance into the world of that secular, inquiring, self-reliant spirit which characterized the life and culture of classical antiquity.
Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 July 15, 1940) was a man who, to this day, is the tallest person in medical history for whom there is irrefutable evidence.
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