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 living man Sultan Kosen, of Mardin, Turkey, born in 1983, is the worldâs tallest living man according to Guinness World Records. He is 8ft 1in tall. He also has the worldâs largest hands. Tallest woman ever Trijntje Keever, of Edam in the Netherlands, was 8ft 4in tall at her death aged 17 in 1633.