Ninety-eight

The Wise Old Elf lives in the same tree as Ben in room ninety-eight.

He's a very old man. He's ninety-eight years old.

She paid a hundred euros, or ninety-eight euros to be precise.

Genetic experts say humans and chimps are ninety-eight percent related. A new study suggests that the development of humans from chimps may have been more recent than scientists have thought. And more complex.

In eighteen ninety-eight, H.G. Wells published a science fiction novel called “The War of the Worlds.” In it, he described creatures from the planet Mars that had technology far beyond anything on Earth. Among their weapons was what Wells called a “heat ray.” Listen to actor Orson Welles describe the weapon in a famous radio broadcast of “The War of the Worlds” from nineteen thirty-eight.