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A child's birthday party may be held at the family's home or in a public place. Soft drinks are often had alongside water and both sweet and savory foods are typically served to the guests. In many cultures, a birthday cake is served. Birthday parties for children often feature entertainment, costumes, party games, and a theme.
The Knights of Labor organized a chapter in 1886 in Shreveport, Louisiana and attracted many cane workers seeking better conditions. A sugar cane workers' strike in Lafourche and three neighboring parishes involved 10,000 workers, 1,000 of whom were white, during the critical "rolling period" of the sugar cane harvest.
Art Sour (1924–2000), state legislator and pioneer of Republican Party in Caddo Parish; Tom Stagg (1923–2015), U.S. District Court judge; Donald Ellsworth Walter, judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, U.S. attorney for the Western District, 1969–1977, based in Shreveport
Bethany is an unincorporated community in Caddo Parish, Louisiana and Panola County, Texas United States, on U.S. Route 79. [2] [3] The Caddo Parish portion of the community is part of the Shreveport – Bossier City metropolitan area.
In Season 2 of Designated Survivor a flu outbreak originates in South Carroll Parish. The television series Queen Sugar is set in St. Josephine Parish, which borders Orleans Parish and is where the titular family; the Bordelon's, reside. The 2006 sequel movie Road House 2 is set in the coastal Tyree Parish.
The town of Shreveport was founded in 1836. In 1853, Pope Pius IX erected the Diocese of Natchitoches, removing the Shreveport area and most of Louisiana from the Diocese of New Orleans. Father Jean Pierre, parish priest at Bayou Pierre in Louisiana, started visiting Shreveport in 1856.
Coushatta is a town in, and the parish seat of, rural Red River Parish in north Louisiana, United States. [2] It is situated on the east bank of the Red River.The community is approximately 45 miles south of Shreveport on U.S. Highway 71.