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  2. Lost Children Archive - Wikipedia

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    The novel details a cross-country journey from New York to Arizona in a car by a husband and wife, Mama and Papa, and their children, "the girl" and "the boy," both from previous relationships. [4] [5] The novel incorporates fragments from the poetry of other poets, including from poems by Anne Carson, Galway Kinnell, and Augusto Monterroso. [2]

  3. Papa Bois - Wikipedia

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    Papa Bois or Papa Bwa (otherwise known as "Maître Bois", meaning master of the woods or "Daddy Bouchon" meaning hairy man), a French patois word for "father wood" or "father of the forest" is a popular fictional folklore character of St. Lucia, Dominica and Trinidad and Tobago.

  4. Mumbo Jumbo (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Given that the protagonists of the novel are Voodoo practitioners, the novel itself contains a great deal of Voodoo terminology. In the novel, Voodoo is an effective art: PaPa LaBas practices from his Mumbo Jumbo Kathedral, and at one point his assistant is taken over by a loa whom she has neglected to feed.

  5. Mama and papa - Wikipedia

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    Mama and papa use speech sounds that are among the easiest to produce: bilabial consonants like /m/, /p/, and /b/, and the open vowel /a/.They are, therefore, often among the first word-like sounds made by babbling babies (babble words), and parents tend to associate the first sound babies make with themselves and to employ them subsequently as part of their baby-talk lexicon.

  6. Gerard Pappa - Wikipedia

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    Gerard Pappa, also known as "Gerry" and "Pappa Bear" (c. June 19, 1944, in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn – July 10, 1980, in Borough Park, Brooklyn), was a soldier in the Genovese crime family. Known as a hitman and a major narcotics dealer, Pappa was widely feared for his violent tendencies, which directly contributed to his own murder in 1980.

  7. The Last Days of Louisiana Red - Wikipedia

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    The story follows investigator Papa LaBas as he tries to figure out who murdered Ed Yellings, the proprietor of the Solid Gumbo Works. In the story, Labas finds himself fighting the rising tide of violence propagated by Louisiana Red and the militant opportunists, the Moochers.

  8. The Comedians (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The Comedians (1966) is a novel by Graham Greene.Set in Haiti under the rule of François "Papa Doc" Duvalier and his secret police, the Tontons Macoutes, the novel explores political repression and terrorism through the figure of an English hotel owner, Brown.

  9. Where Love Is, God Is - Wikipedia

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    Th children's book, Papa Panov's Special Day, by Mig Holder, is a retelling of the story. It was adapted into "Pratiksha" an episode from the Indian television series, Katha Sagar (1986). The Christmas Guest, a holiday poem written and recorded by Grandpa Jones and later recorded by Johnny Cash and Reba McEntire, is based on this story.