Dido with the timing of the tribute to Shalmaneser and the year when construction of the First Temple began provide evidence for the essential historicity of at least the existence of Pygmalion and Dido as well as their rift in 825 BC that eventually led to the founding of Carthage. According to J. M. Peñuela, the difference in the two dates for the foundation of Carthage has an explanation if we understand that Dido fled Tyre in 825 BC, but eleven years elapsed before she was given permission by the original inhabitants to build a city on the mainland, years marked
Dido flip on stage as "". However, in September 2007, the "Daily Telegraph" speculated as to whether "music's own Bridget Jones ... has, like her trademark boot-cut jeans and eponymous Dido-flip hair, fallen out of fashion". The flip was sported for a time by Chelsea Clinton, daughter of the former US President Bill Clinton, at the time of Dido's rise to fame. The Dido flip was not discernible on the cover of the artist's first album, "No Angel" (1999), on which her hair was combed back, and by the time of "Life for Rent", her hair was longer. It could, however, be