Mare Nostrum on exchanges and cooperation among Mediterranean nations. Following the 2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck, the Italian government decided to strengthen the national system for the patrolling of the Mediterranean sea by authorizing "Operation Mare Nostrum", a military and humanitarian operation in order to rescue the migrants and arrest the traffickers of immigrants. Mare Nostrum Mare Nostrum (Latin for "Our Sea") was a Roman name for the Mediterranean Sea. In Classical Latin it was pronounced [ˈma.rɛ ˈnɔs.trũ], and in Ecclesiastical Latin it is pronounced [ˈma.ɾe ˈnos.trum]. In the years following the unification of Italy in 1861, Italian nationalists who saw Italy as
Now That's What I Call Music (original UK album) † Never appeared on any of the numbered "NOW" albums but did appear on Now 1983 in the 10th Anniversary Series. †† Later appeared on "NOW 2". Now That's What I Call Music (original UK album) Now That's What I Call Music (also simply titled Now or Now 1) is the first album from the popular "Now!" series that was released in the United Kingdom on 28 November 1983. Initial pressings were released on vinyl and audio cassette. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the album and series, the album was re-released on CD for the first time in 2009.