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.
Well according to the Guinness Book of World Records the tallest man ever measured is Robert Wadlow. At his tallest he was 8ft 11 in. Which is about 2.72m . Tallest man ever.