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.
Tallest man - living. The tallest man living is Sultan KÃ¶sen (Turkey, b.10 December 1982) who measured 251 cm (8 ft 2.8 in) in Ankara, Turkey, on 08 February 2011. The part-time farmer was the first man over 8 ft (2.43 m) to be measured by Guinness World Records in over 20 years.