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.
By his first birthday, Robert Wadlow weighed 45 pounds and stood 3 feet, 3.5 inches. He kept growing, towering over his father at age eight. At 13 years old and 7 feet, 4 inches, he was the worldâs tallest Boy Scout. Wadlow was a quiet and mild-mannered young man, which led to him be called a âgentle giant.â He enjoyed photography and playing guitar â until his hands grew too large to do either.