Eclipse glasses, dark welder's goggles or an astronomer's filter made for sun viewing are recommended if people want to look skyward.

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Felix de Paula was an 18-year-old Army private stationed at the secret New Mexico outpost when he was aroused from sleep in the pre-dawn hours that July morning and handed a pair of welder's glasses.

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By 1963, the former welder had a handful of hits topping Jamaica's charts.

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But I think there's no question that for some reason people perceive of me as being quintessentially English, whatever that means, I've not quite understood what it means, why a Huddersfield welder is less quintessentially English than someone who talks like me is way beyond my understanding, it's really a strange thing.

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