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Warning: this article contains full spoilers for The Flash: Season 9! The Flash has been on the air for almost a full decade now. To say the series has grown a little convoluted over time would be ...

Time was, entire social castes would be dedicated to divining the intentions of the gods. Chicken entrails, the flight of birds, the rolling of thunder—all this and more was used by ancient peoples ...