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.
World's Tallest Man. Robert Wadlow is the world's tallest man at 8 feet 11 inches. Robert Pershing Wadlow (1918 - 1940) was and is the tallest human being ever recorded. He reached 8' 11.1 (272 cm) in height and 490 pounds (222.26 kg) in weight before his death at the age of 22. His height was due to an overactive pituitary gland.