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.
Kosen, who is from Mardin in southeast Turkey, was officially named the tallest man in the world in the 2010 Guinness Book of World Records, taking the title from China's Bao Xishun, who is 7-feet-9. He began towering over his peers at age 10, and doctors found a tumor around his pituitary gland was causing it to produce too much growth hormone.