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.
Other Similar FunTrivia Questions & Answers. 1  The dialect of where I come from calls this pasta shape 'filey' (filej) and is always served in a fiery hot sauce called N'duja. Classical Italian refers to this pasta shape as something that is supposed to choke a clergyman. What is it called? Do the colors of the flag of Italy--red, white and green--have anything to do with their national diet of pasta (pasta is {white;} tomato sauce is {red;} fresh leaves of herb is green)?