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.
Sultan took the title of World's Tallest Man from Xi Shun of China, who stood seven feet, nine inches tall. Like many of the world's tallest people, Sultan's height is caused by a physical condition called pituitary gigantism.