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.
The tallest man currently alive is Sultan KÃ¶sen, a Turkish farmer who stands 8'2 3/4. The tallest man in medical history for whom there is irrefutable evidence was Robert Wadlow of Alton, Illinois, USA, who stood 8'11 1/10 at the time of his death in 1940.