Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa bin Hamad bin Abdullah bin Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani (; born 1 January 1952) is a member of the ruling Al Thani Qatari royal family. He was the ruling Emir of Qatar from 1995 to 2013. The Qatari government now refers to him as His Highness the Father Emir. Hamad seized power in a bloodless palace "coup d'état" in 1995. During his 18-year rule, Qatar's natural gas production reached 77 million tonnes, making Qatar the richest country in the world per capita with the average income in the country US$86,440
Country house poem tutor between November 1650 and the end of 1652. The poem centres on Lord Fairfax's daughter Maria. Thomas Carew also wrote two country house poems in the mould of "To Penshurst": "To Saxham" and "To My Friend G. N., from Wrest". Even closer to the Jonsonian model is a poem by the oldest of the so-called "Sons of Ben", Robert Herrick, "A Panegyric to Sir Lewis Pemberton". Country house poem A country house poem is a poem in which the author compliments a wealthy patron or a friend through a description of his country house. Such poems were popular in