Two days later, on April 14, the âunsinkableâ Titanic struck an iceberg and sank to bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. That iceberg had the same elliptical shape, according to sketches made on the ship. Wood had captured the remarkable piece of ice, said Craig Sophin, a Titanic expert and consultant to the auctioneers.
The current Italian flag consists of three equal vertical bands of color â green, white, and red â with the green being the one on the hoist side. This kind of flag is known as a âtricolorâ design, the same kind of design the French flag and Irish flag have.lag of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, 1860-1861. During the Italian uprising which became the start of the unification process, the Sardinian flag (shown above from 1848) was raised to represent the new country, thereby solidifying the tricolor design again.
Italy[edit] Flag of the National Fascist Party, bearing the fasces, which was the premier symbol of Italian Fascism. A perched eagle clutching a fasces was a common symbol used on Italian Fascist uniforms. The original symbol of fascism, in Italy under Benito Mussolini, was the fasces. This is an ancient Imperial Roman symbol of power carried by lictors in front of magistrates; a bundle of sticks featuring an axe, indicating the power over life and death.