James McNeill Whistler's (painter Of "Whistler's Mother") Failure In His West Point Chemistry Examination Once Provoked Him To Remark In Later Life

James McNeill Whistler's (painter Of "Whistler's Mother") Failure In His West Point Chemistry Examination Once Provoked Him To Remark In Later Life

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James McNeill Whistler's (painter of "Whistler's Mother") failure in his
West Point chemistry examination once provoked him to remark in later life,
"If silicon had been a gas, I should have been a major general."

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