- Philemon in Greek (ancientlibrary.net)
The shortest of Paul’s letters, Philemon is a one-chapter epistle of the Greek New Testament written in Koine Greek in the first century AD. Writing from prison, the apostle Paul appeals to Philemon, a Christian slaveholder, on behalf of Onesimus, a slave who has become like a son to him, asking that he be welcomed back no longer as a slave but as a beloved brother.
- Gig Harbor — Thumbnail History (historylink.org)
Gig Harbor is a city in Pierce County located on a picturesque Puget Sound bay – also called Gig Harbor – across Tacoma Narrows from Tacoma. For centuries, the Twa-Wal-Kut band of the Puyallup Tribe had a longhouse and permanent camp at the head of the harbor. Explorers from the Wilkes Expedition discovered the harbor’s well-hidden opening in 1841 and named it Gig Harbor because they had entered the bay in a small captain’s gig…