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 in the World. The following is an article from the book Uncle John's Fast-Acting Long-Lasting Bathroom Reader. You may think being the tallest guy in the room's a great thing. Hereâs the story of a man who probably wouldnât agree. TALL TALE. On February 22, 1918, Addie Wadlow gave birth to an 8.5 pound baby boy in the town of Alton, Illinois. She and her husband, Harold, named him Robert.