.COMPLETE SOLAR eclipses have dazzled people considering that opportunity out of mind. The first document of one, preserved on a clay tablet computer located at Ugarit, now in Syria, is actually felt coming from its own age and location to describe either an eclipse that occurred in 1375BC or even one in 1223BC. Famous illustrations for eclipses feature the Sunlight being consumed through pet dogs, frogs or dragons. The reality is actually much more prosaic. Eclipses are dued to the Moon moving in between Sunshine and also Earth in a manner that casts a shadow on part of The planet's area. Why are complete ones, like the one intercrossing aspect of North America on April 8th, therefore unusual?