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.
Giants Among Men (And Women) At 8 feet, 3 inch tall, Sultan Kosen was declared the world's tallest living man in 2009 after another candidate, Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk, refused to be measured.