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| | Brussels Barbarians Rugby F.C.-The origins of the Manneken Pis |
 | | During the next 250 years, the fountain provided the area around the City Hall with drinking water and may, in fact, be the first recorded occasion on which a local government may have been able to claim with justifiable pride that “this water has been passed by the management”. |
 | | Indeed, on most days, Manneken Pis is dressed in one of his suits, which are on permanent display in the Brussels City Museum. |
 | | Manneken Pis is also an honorary Master Sergeant of the U.S. Marine Corps, having received his “promotion” and a dress-uniform to prove it from General Dwight D. Eisenhower, following the liberation of Brussels by the allies in World War II. |
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