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Henry, O.

O. Henry was born as William Sidney Porter in Greensboro, North Carolina. He later changed the spelling of his middle name to "Sydney". His father, Algernon Sidney Porter, was a physician. When Porter's mother died of tuberculosis in 1865, father and son went to live with William's grandmother where he was chiefly raised by an aunt due to his father's heavy drinking. As a teenager, he trained at...

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Fu Manchu

Gender: Male

The satanical, extremely intelligent and powerful gang leader was created by Sax Rohmer (pseudonym for Arthur Henry Ward) and has become something of an icon as regards super criminals – preferably Asians – who aspire to world domination. Fu Manchu has green eyes, a shaved head, long droopy moustaches, and has an arch enemy in British agent Nayland Smith who battles against him with varying suc...

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