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    "date": "2022-10-17",
    "description": "Brussels has a lot of weird statues. Here's a few of them.",
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    "tags": ["Photography", "Vacation", "Brussels", "Statues"],
    "title": "Statues in Brussels"
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Brussels has a lot of weird statues. Here's a few of them. Some of them are [peeing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_depictions_of_urine_in_art), which made them very famous.

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[![Photo of Manneken Pis](media/images/Brussels-Manneken-Pis)](media/images/big/Brussels-Manneken-Pis){.size-half}

Statue of a small boy peeing, called ["Manneken Pis"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manneken_Pis). It will [wear a costume every few days](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manneken_Pis#Costumes_and_wardrobe).

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[![Photo of Jeanneke Pis](media/images/Brussels-Jeanneke-pis)](media/images/big/Brussels-Jeanneke-pis){.size-half}

Statue of a small girl peeing, called ["Jeanneke Pis"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanneke_Pis).

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[![Photo of Hez Zinneke](media/images/Brussels-Het-Zinneke)](media/images/big/Brussels-Het-Zinneke){.size-half}

Statue of a dog peeing, called ["Het Zinneke"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Het_Zinneke).

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[![Photo of a Winston Churchill statue](media/images/Brussels-Churchill)](media/images/big/Brussels-Churchill){.size-half}

Statue of Winston Churchill (not peeing). I saw it in the [Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Museum_of_the_Armed_Forces_and_Military_History).

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[![Photo of a plaque featuring a peeing space invader](media/images/Brussels-peeing-space-invader)](media/images/big/Brussels-peeing-space-invader)

I also found this plaque featuring a peeing space invader
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