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  • noun English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia; was said to have been saved by Pocahontas (1580-1631)

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  • john smith, london, 30/11/2011 08:24 Borrowing a reader's comment from one national newspaper today: "Some of our political "leaders" of the last twenty years should be on trial for what they have done."

    Evening Standard - Home Nicholas Cecil 2011

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