.OVERALL SOLAR eclipses have dazzled people given that opportunity out of thoughts. The 1st document of one, maintained on a clay-based tablet computer located at Ugarit, now in Syria, is actually thought from its own grow older and also location to define either an eclipse that happened in 1375BC or one in 1223BC. Fabulous explanations for eclipses include the Sun being consumed by pet dogs, toads or dragons. The fact is even more prosaic. Eclipses are brought on by the Moon moving between Sunshine and The planet in a manner that casts a darkness on portion of Planet's surface. Why are overall ones, like the one crossing part of The United States and Canada on April 8th, thus rare?