1 Hinge joints, like in your knee and elbow, enable movement similar to the opening and closing of a hinged door. 2  The pivot joint in your neck allows you to turn your head from side to side. 3  The only saddle joints in your body are in your thumbs.
Bossier Parish, Louisiana. Bossier Parish (/ËboÊÊÉr/ BOH-zhÉr; French: Paroisse de Bossier) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 116,979. The parish seat is Benton. The principal city is Bossier City, which is located east of the Red River from Shreveport, the seat of Caddo Parish.
The parish is named for 19th-century American statesman Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and New Hampshire. It was created on February 27, 1871 from lands formerly belonging to Bienville, Bossier, and Claiborne parishes. Webster Parish is part of the Shreveport-Bossier City, LA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Among the first settlers in Webster Parish was Newett Drew, a native of Virginia, who about 1818 established a grist mill at the former Overton community near Minden.