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1. 'Sadly,' the Bidens likely won't have much chance to see any Manneken Pis.
Sun Jun 13, 2021, 07:52 PM
Jun 2021

Manneken Pis (Dutch: [ˌmɑnəkə m) ˈpɪs] (About this soundlisten); Dutch for '"Little Pissing Man"') is a landmark[1] 61 cm (24 in) bronze fountain sculpture[2] of a puer mingens in central Brussels (Belgium), depicting a naked little boy urinating into the fountain's basin. It was designed by Jérôme Duquesnoy the Elder (1570–1641), and put in place in 1618 or 1619.[3] The current statue is a replica which dates from 1965.[4] The original is kept in the Brussels City Museum.[5][6][7] Manneken Pis is the best-known symbol of the people of Brussels. It also embodies their sense of humour (called zwanze in Brussels' dialect)[8] and their independence of mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manneken_Pis

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