.OVERALL SOLAR eclipses have dazzled folks since time out of thoughts. The first record of one, protected on a clay-based tablet located at Ugarit, currently in Syria, is believed from its own age and site to explain either an eclipse that happened in 1375BC or even one in 1223BC. Legendary explanations for eclipses feature the Sun being actually consumed by canines, frogs or monsters. The truth is more prosaic. Eclipses are caused by the Moon relocating in between Sunlight and also Earth in a manner that casts a shadow on portion of Planet's surface. Why are actually overall ones, like the one crossing part of The United States on April 8th, therefore unusual?