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.
Meet the Tallest Men in the World. At 8-feet 5-inches tall, Leonid Stadnik is uncomfortable in his ill-fitting shoes, his bulky clothes and his horse-drawn cart, but he is really uncomfortable in the spotlight as the world's tallest man. The reclusive Stadnik, who is 37 and lives in Podoliantsi, Ukraine, was given the title last August by the Guinness World Records.