Cool sounding names

You are Reading, then you need a Bath with it. Then you need some music while reading in the bathtub.

• University of Bath
• London Sound Bank University or the University of Puget Sound

 

Convinced (POSTing, as in "Post university", that from my tablet while taking a bath)

 

Ha! I saw what you did there --- you made it up! That school is actually London SOUTH Bank University.

If we're going to make up schools, how about this, a school for aspiring thriller-writers:
"The International School of Mystery" (Chancellor, Dr. Austin Powers)

(Shagadelic! Oh, behave!)

 

Universite Nazi Boni. Seems to be legitimate, but sounds strange in the ears of a German! https://www.univ-bobo.gov.bf/accueil

 

The town of Swastika, in Northern Ontario mining and forestry country, was named after the ancient symbol at its founding in 1908.

During World War II the Ontario government replaced the town sign in an attempt to rename the town Winston. In a prototypical Northern Ontario moment, locals replaced that with a new sign reading Swastika – now with an inscription taunting Hitler that they had the name first.

Swastika is the name of the community today, now merged into the town of Kirkland Lake. Swastika was home to Swastika Public School.

 

Bowling Green State University

 

And Kitchener used to be Berlin! But they elected to change that one.

 

There was a Geographic Township of Stalin in Ontario until 1986! It received that name when Stalin was principally thought of as a World War II ally.

Then, as the label on little-used official maps for a remote unpopulated area – most or all of the township appears to be part of two large wilderness parks today, Killarney Provincial Park and Killarney Lakelands and Headwaters Provincial Park – the name was largely forgotten.

Finally Ukrainian-Canadian Ontario legislator Yuri Shymko did notice, and passed a bill in 1986 to rename it Hansen Township after wheelchair athlete Rick Hansen.

 

I stumbled upon the "University of Perpetual Help". Well...

 

Was Beaver College mentioned?
Also there is University of Uyo.

 

My first thought was that this must be a Catholic university. Given the anglophone name and the likelihood of this being Catholic, my second thought was that this must be a private university in the Philippines.

Well, Google confirms both! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Perpetual_Help_System_DALTA?lang=en

 

Remember Lake Wobegon? "Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility"?

 

A church we were going to for Scouts meetings is called "Our Lady of the Rosary", which is an iconography less common than quite popular Our Lady of Sorrows. Here is a Byzantine form of it, I actually have a very similar postcard icon laying around somewhere:

I have a hard time seeing what's so exotic about these forms of devotions to The Most Blessed Mother of God and Ever-Virgin. It's a very normal Catholic thing. Perpetual Help, too.