Form H11 (September 2024) — English

=== A House Finds a New Home ===
After over 120 years in one place, a three-story, forty-five-ton house in Iowa City, Iowa, changed its address. Built in the 1890s, the ornate, asymmetrically shaped Queen Anne–style house, known as the Houser-Metzger house in honor of early owners, and slated for demolition in 2016 to allow for new construction. But, earlier that year, a house on a row of historic homes just a few blocks away had to be torn down due to storm damage. Preservationists’ plans to move the Houser-Metzger house to the gaping, newly empty lot came together quickly. Preparation for the move began in March at the empty lot, starting with builders pouring a new concrete foundation. Meanwhile, volunteers prepared the Houser-Metzger house, which weighs forty-five tons. The furnace and water heater were salvaged from the basement. The antique fireplace and mantel were pulled out with some damage to the surrounding tilework. The original porch columns and decorative railings were carefully taken down and packed. As scheduled, the house movers arrived in April, their first step was to break open the house’s foundation, allowing them to wedge a huge dolly under the building. Next, the movers inserted steel supporting beams to create a temporary—and moveable platform—which they attached to their truck. When driven forward, the truck slowly pulled the house off its foundation. Utility workers disconnected power lines to make way for the freight as the towering, elegant house moved down city blocks like a stately ship coasting over calm water. While crowds at the Houser-Metzger house’s new address on foot tracked the house’s two-hour-long journey, a construction crew was waiting. The crew helped the movers to back the house squarely onto its new foundation, a task that took twice as long as the move itself. At the end of the long day, preservationists and passersby alike marveled at the impossible sight: a new-old house stood soundly where there had been only an empty lot, therefore, the day before.

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=== Migration of Christmas Island Red Crabs ===
gration is lengthy—typically taking eighteen days—and is a tourist attraction as well.

=== The Oldest Living Things ===
You Don’t Look a Day Over 2,000 White-trunked aspen in a grove in Utah, brain coral off the coast of Tobago that is gray, green moss on rocky outcrops in Antarctica—Rachel Sussman has photographed a diverse array of living things all over the world.