The word Dido refers to the founder and first queen of Carthage in Greek mythology, a British pop musician, Bishop Dido (Desiderius) of Poitiers who died in 669, the minor planet number 209, and a class of light cruisers of the British Royal Navy from 1939.
It also relates to the opera "Dido and Aeneas" by Henry Purcell, the play "Dido, Queen of Carthage" by Christopher Marlowe, a type of research reactor, the DIDO research reactor at the Jülich Research Center, Mount Dido in Victoria Land, Antarctica, and two Israeli-Swiss CubeSats named DIDO 1 and DIDO 2.
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