Dub and Dubber

The following image depicts a ceremony which gives a word to English meaning "honor" or "praise".Name the word.



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Mayur

Answer:"Accolade"
The main act in the ceremony of Knighting involved an "Accolade"-the tapping of the flat side of a sword on the shoulders of a candidate or an embrace about the neck.More on wiki.

woodstock and the sutras

1.
Wood from the ship (X) was utilised to make (Y) which is also called the "X desk", a symbol of friendship between England and the States.ID X and Y.
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Y



2.
The introduction of software (A) has been viewed as a challenge to Adobe and AIR who own almost the whole of this "market."The software came in the news recently for being involved in a massive online directory associated with (B) for its zooming capabilities.ID A and B.

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B



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Mayur-hoisted by his own retards

Johny Walker crax both:
1.The "Resolute Desk" from the Oval Office is named so as it is made from the wood of the ship HMS Resolute.
Recently, Gordon Brown presented Obama with a wooden pen holder made from the wood of HMS Gannet( anti-slave ship)- the sister ship of HMS Resolute.

2.Microsoft Silverlight is Microsoft's answer to Flash. Recently got associated with playboyarchives.com