"I'm so glad I found you and you found me," the bride exclaimed, adding: "I trust that I can count on you more than I've ever counted on anything before.
In her last Paris triumph at the Olympia Music Hall, all that was left of Piaf was all that had ever counted — her immense, infallible voice, which rose to the roof, carrying its enormous, authentic outcry of banal phrases of anguish over lost loves, and poignant despair of happiness that would never arrive.
But an analysis by the Leichtman Research Group in May found that the country's biggest television providers collectively lost about 80,000 subscribers in the 12-month period that ended in March, the first time that the researchers had ever counted an industrywide subscriber loss (rather than typical share-shifting between companies).
In 1997, Houlahan began to collect data (both published and unpublished) by e-mail from every researcher he could find who had ever counted amphibians.
Archeologists have dated some of the images as far back as 15,000 to 19,000 years, and nobody has ever successfully counted them.
Producing some of the most talented people the world has ever known, Russia counts among her native sons Léon Bakst and Vaslav Nijinsky, Nureyev and Baryshnikov; Fabergé, Chagall, and Kandinsky; Dostoyevsky and Chekhov; Dmitri Ivanenko, who gave us the hypothesis of quark stars.
"Tonight is for every one of you out there who have ever been counted out," he told a jubilant crowd chanting "Three more weeks".
Its 29 marble halls and courtyards took 63 years to build, and while the official records state that it has 1,444 pillars – each uniquely carved – the locals insist no one has ever been able to count them.
There were those who suspected that its extraordinarily long spire was intended solely to make it the tallest building in the world, but nobody has ever seriously suggested not counting it.
