• the Swedish-Norwegian Union Jack of 1844 (pictured) became so unpopular that it was contemptuously nicknamed the Sillsalaten, after a colorful dish of pickled herring, red beets and apples?
• betalains are deep red pigments responsible for the color of beets (pictured), bougainvillea, amaranth, and many cacti?

Facts on topics related to Beet

Beetroot

• Australian Olympic swimming champion Faith Leech grew up on a diet of carrot juice and beetroot after refusing all other food as a baby?

Garlic

• Tarquin the Proud modified the Roman festival of Compitalia to include the sacrifice of children's heads, but upon his expulsion, Brutus substituted heads of garlic and poppies instead?
• the edible mushroom Marasmius alliaceus tastes and smells like garlic?
• wild garlic and mustard are grown in Kings Pond Park, a public park in New Jersey?

Radish

• Cortinarius semisanguineus, whose common name is "Surprise Webcap", is a mushroom that smells of radishes?

Italy

• 19th century Polish general Ludwik Mierosławski led revolutionaries in Poland, Germany and Italy?
• Bulgarian–Italian Futurist painter Nikolay Diulgheroff, an honorary citizen of Turin, studied at the original Bauhaus in Weimar?
• canoe racer Josefa Idem, a 1984 Olympic bronze medalist for West Germany, later took an Italian citizenship and became the first female Olympic medalist in canoeing for her new country?
• chief justice Frederick Richard Jordan once decided that the government of New South Wales had "no business" refusing a water irrigation licence just because the applicant was Italian?
• Christmas is traditionally celebrated in Agnone, Italy, with a torchlight parade known as Ndocciata? (2006 event pictured)
• Galileo's father Vincenzo Galilei was a noted Italian lutenist?
• Giorgio Francia of Italy became the first non-German to win the German Formula Three Championship, by winning the title in the year 1974?
• Italian aerodynamicist Antonio Ferri took to the hills in 1943 with a trunk load of scientific documents to turn over to the Allies?
• Italian aeronautical engineer Corradino D'Ascanio developed a record-setting early helicopter in 1930 and designed the original Vespa motor scooter in 1946?
• Italian film director Marco Ferreri hired actor Michel Piccoli almost immediately after the two first met for his art house masterpiece Dillinger Is Dead?