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unusual facts about The Vortex


Lilian Braithwaite

Her greatest triumph was as the alcoholic mother in Noël Coward's groundbreaking drama The Vortex.


John C. Wilson

During the run of The Vortex by Noël Coward in 1924, Wilson met Coward and soon became his business manager and lover.


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Blood and the Moon

The poem contains many themes common in Yeats's poems from the 1920s including the "tower", a reference to Thoor Ballylee, which had been the title of a collection of works printed the year before "Blood and the Moon" was published, as well as the "gyre" which had been a major focus of his 1920 poem "The Second Coming".

Cult of Skaro

The Doctor ultimately manages to use the vortex manipulator at the Torchwood Institute to suck what he believes to be all the Daleks back into the Void.

Lensman series

:The Vortex Blaster (1960. Published with the title Masters of the Vortex in 1968)

Southern Ontario Tornado Outbreak of 2005

Convective storm detection showed on weather radars a hook echo, a BWER and a strong mesocyclone but the vortex left the ground after the second tornado.

The Doctor Who Role Playing Game

FASA also published two solo play gamebooks: Doctor Who and the Vortex Crystal (1986) by William H. Keith, Jr., featuring the Fourth Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan and the Daleks, set on the planet Gathwyr; and Doctor Who and the Rebel's Gambit (1986) by William H. Keith, Jr., featuring the Sixth Doctor, Peri and Harry Sullivan, set during the American Civil War, ISBN 0-931787-68-8

Vortex Jazz Club

The Vortex started as a jazz club in 1987 and was located in Stoke Newington Church Street.

Many notable jazz musicians have played at the Vortex, including Last Amendment, F-IRE Collective, Derek Bailey, Kenny Wheeler, Evan Parker, John Etheridge, Tim Berne, Ian Shaw, Lianne Carroll and Django Bates.

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"Subject To Status" was featured in the background of a Volkswagen commercial for the Vortex.