.OVERALL SOLAR eclipses have awed folks because time out of mind. The 1st file of one, kept on a clay tablet located at Ugarit, right now in Syria, is thought from its own age and also place to explain either an eclipse that happened in 1375BC or one in 1223BC. Famous descriptions for eclipses include the Sun being consumed through canines, toads or monsters. The truth is more prosaic. Eclipses are caused by the Moon moving in between Sun and The planet in such a way that casts a shadow on part of The planet's surface area. Why are overall ones, like the one intercrossing component of The United States on April 8th, thus unusual?